ebben
German, verb
ebben is spelled E-B-B-E-N (5 letters) and appears about once in every 16 million words in written German, the 225,828th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ebben is a German verb meaning “to ebb” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Ebben is a different word: “plural of Ebbe”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “fallen; absinken, verziehen”.
What does ebben mean in English?
verb
- 1
to ebb
noun
- 1
feminineplural of Ebbe
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. fallen; absinken, verziehen
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 ebben
- ebbt present singular third-person
- ebbte past
- geebbt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- ebbend participle present
- ebbe first-person indicative present
- ebbst indicative present second-person
- ebbest second-person singular subjunctive
- ebbet plural second-person subjunctive
- ebbten first-person indicative plural
- ebbtest indicative preterite second-person
- ebbtet indicative plural preterite
- ebb imperative second-person singular
- habe geebbt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geebbt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- ebbe! imperative singular
- ebbt! imperative plural
- geebbt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to ebben
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ebben in German?
ebben appears about once in every 16 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).