Annahme
German, noun
Annahme is spelled A-N-N-A-H-M-E (7 letters) and appears 21 times per million words in written German, the 3,812th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Annahme is a German feminine noun meaning “presupposition, assumption, hypothesis” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, annähme is a different word: “first/third-person singular dependent subjunctive II of annehmen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Glaube an einen (noch) nicht erwiesenen oder nicht beweisbaren Sachverhalt, eine Hypothese oder Axiom”.
What does Annahme mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininepresupposition, assumption, hypothesis
- 2
feminineacceptance, the act of accepting
- 3
femininereceipt, reception, the act of receiving
- 4
femininethe act of stopping and controlling the ball
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular dependent subjunctive II of annehmen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Glaube an einen (noch) nicht erwiesenen oder nicht beweisbaren Sachverhalt, eine Hypothese oder Axiom 2. Handlung, etwas entgegenzunehmen, in Empfang zu nehmen 3. Einverständnis zu einem Vorschlag 4. Akzeptanz von jemandem oder etwas
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 Annahme
- Annahmen plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Annahme
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Annahme in German?
Annahme appears 21 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).