dahinterkommen
German, verb/daˈhɪntɐˌkɔmən/
dahinterkommen is spelled D-A-H-I-N-T-E-R-K-O-M-M-E-N (14 letters) and appears about once in every 29 million words in written German, the 313,524th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dahinterkommen is a German verb meaning “to find out, discover” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “zur Erkenntnis einer unbekannten, verheimlichten, verhüllten Tatsache gelangen”.
What does dahinterkommen mean in English?
verb
- 1
colloquialto find out, discover
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. zur Erkenntnis einer unbekannten, verheimlichten, verhüllten Tatsache gelangen
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 dahinterkommen
- kommt dahinter present singular third-person
- kam dahinter past
- dahintergekommen participle past
- käme dahinter past subjunctive
- sein auxiliary
- 4 strong
- dahinterkommend participle present
- dahinterzukommen infinitive infinitive-zu
- komme dahinter first-person indicative present
- kommen dahinter first-person indicative plural
- kommst dahinter indicative present second-person
- kommest dahinter second-person singular subjunctive
- kommet dahinter plural second-person subjunctive
- kamen dahinter first-person indicative plural
- kämen dahinter first-person plural subjunctive
- kamst dahinter indicative preterite second-person
- kamt dahinter indicative plural preterite
- kämest dahinter second-person singular subjunctive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dahinterkommen?
- /daˈhɪntɐˌkɔmən/
- [daˈhɪntɐˌkɔmən]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is dahinterkommen in German?
dahinterkommen appears about once in every 29 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).