argwöhnen
German, verb
argwöhnen is spelled A-R-G-W-Ö-H-N-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 14 million words in written German, the 205,761st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Argwöhnen is a German verb meaning “to suspect” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Argwöhnen is a different word: “gerund of argwöhnen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “einen Argwohn gegen etwas oder jemanden haben, etwas vermuten”.
What does argwöhnen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to suspect
noun
- 1
neutergerund of argwöhnen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. einen Argwohn gegen etwas oder jemanden haben, etwas vermuten
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 argwöhnen
- argwöhnt present singular third-person
- argwöhnte past
- geargwöhnt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- argwöhnend participle present
- argwöhne first-person indicative present
- argwöhnst indicative present second-person
- argwöhnest second-person singular subjunctive
- argwöhnet plural second-person subjunctive
- argwöhnten first-person indicative plural
- argwöhntest indicative preterite second-person
- argwöhntet indicative plural preterite
- argwöhn imperative second-person singular
- habe geargwöhnt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geargwöhnt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- argwöhn! imperative singular
- argwöhne! imperative singular
- argwöhnt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is argwöhnen in German?
argwöhnen appears about once in every 14 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).