anhaften
German, verb
anhaften is spelled A-N-H-A-F-T-E-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written German, the 104,034th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Anhaften is a German verb meaning “to inhere, to be inherent in” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Anhaften is a different word: “gerund of anhaften”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “fest mit etwas verbunden sein, an jemandem/etwas festhängen, dauerhaft kleben bleiben”.
What does anhaften mean in English?
verb
- 1
to inhere, to be inherent in
- 2
to stick on, to cling to
noun
- 1
neutergerund of anhaften
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. fest mit etwas verbunden sein, an jemandem/etwas festhängen, dauerhaft kleben bleiben 2. zu jemandem oder etwas gehören, mit jemandem oder etwas stets in Verbindung gebracht werden (meist etwas Negatives)
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 anhaften
- haftet an present singular third-person
- haftete an past
- angehaftet participle past
- haben auxiliary
- anhaftend participle present
- anzuhaften infinitive infinitive-zu
- hafte an first-person indicative present
- haften an first-person indicative plural
- haftest an indicative present second-person
- hafteten an first-person indicative plural
- haftetest an indicative preterite second-person
- haftetet an indicative plural preterite
- haft an! imperative singular
- hafte an! imperative singular
- haftet an! imperative plural
- angehaftet haben active infinitive perfect
- angehaftet werden processual-passive infinitive present
- angehaftet worden sein processual-passive infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to anhaften
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is anhaften in German?
anhaften appears about once in every 4 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).