drohend
German, adjective/ˈdʁoːənt/
drohend is spelled D-R-O-H-E-N-D (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 68,093rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Drohend is a German adjective meaning “threatening, menacing, forbidding” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a present participle of drohen. The German Wiktionary defines it as “(als etwas negatives) unmittelbar bevorstehend”.
What does drohend mean in English?
adjective
- 1
threatening, menacing, forbidding
verb
- 1
present participle of drohen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. (als etwas negatives) unmittelbar bevorstehend
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 drohend
- drohender masculine nominative singular
- drohende feminine nominative singular
- drohendes neuter nominative singular
- drohenden genitive masculine singular
- drohendem dative masculine singular
- der drohende definite includes-article masculine
- die drohende definite feminine includes-article
- das drohende definite includes-article neuter
- die drohenden definite includes-article nominative
- des drohenden definite genitive includes-article
- der drohenden definite feminine genitive
- dem drohenden dative definite includes-article
- den drohenden dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce drohend?
- /ˈdʁoːənt/
- [ˈdʁoːənt]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to drohend
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is drohend in German?
drohend appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).