blühen
German, verb
blühen is spelled B-L-Ü-H-E-N (6 letters) and appears 3.9 times per million words in written German, the 14,778th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Blühen is a German verb meaning “to blossom or bloom” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Blühen is a different word: “gerund of blühen; blossoming, blooming”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Blüten aufweisen; eine oder mehrere Blüten aus sich herausgewachsen haben, in Blüte sein”.
What does blühen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to blossom or bloom
- 2
to thrive or flourish
noun
- 1
neutergerund of blühen; blossoming, blooming
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Blüten aufweisen; eine oder mehrere Blüten aus sich herausgewachsen haben, in Blüte sein 2. sehr gut laufen, sich wirtschaftlich gut entwickeln 3. etwas (zumeist Negatives) jemandem geschehen, von jemandem erlebt, erfahren werden
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 blühen
- blüht present singular third-person
- blühte past
- geblüht participle past
- haben auxiliary
- blühend participle present
- blühe first-person indicative present
- blühst indicative present second-person
- blühest second-person singular subjunctive
- blühet plural second-person subjunctive
- blühten first-person indicative plural
- blühtest indicative preterite second-person
- blühtet indicative plural preterite
- blüh imperative second-person singular
- habe geblüht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geblüht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- blühe! imperative singular
- blüht! imperative plural
- geblüht haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to blühen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is blühen in German?
blühen appears 3.9 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).