anflehen
German, verb
anflehen is spelled A-N-F-L-E-H-E-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written German, the 148,565th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Anflehen is a German verb meaning “to beg, to beseech” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Anflehen is a different word: “gerund of anflehen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemanden flehentlich um etwas bitten”.
What does anflehen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to beg, to beseech
noun
- 1
neutergerund of anflehen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. jemanden flehentlich um etwas bitten
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of anflehen
- fleht an present singular third-person
- flehte an past
- angefleht participle past
- haben auxiliary
- anflehend participle present
- anzuflehen infinitive infinitive-zu
- flehe an first-person indicative present
- flehen an first-person indicative plural
- flehst an indicative present second-person
- flehest an second-person singular subjunctive
- flehet an plural second-person subjunctive
- flehten an first-person indicative plural
- flehtest an indicative preterite second-person
- flehtet an indicative plural preterite
- fleh an! imperative singular
- flehe an! imperative singular
- fleht an! imperative plural
- flehet an! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to anflehen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is anflehen in German?
anflehen appears about once in every 8 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).