Ehre
German, noun
Ehre is spelled E-H-R-E (4 letters) and appears 34 times per million words in written German, the 2,442nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ehre is a German feminine noun meaning “honour” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, ehre is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “innere Würde, die ein Mensch sich selbst gegenüber empfindet”.
What does Ehre mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininehonour
zu seinen Ehren
- 2
femininecredit
- 3
femininekudos
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- 3
singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. innere Würde, die ein Mensch sich selbst gegenüber empfindet 2. Bezeugung der Hochachtung, die ein Mensch durch andere erfährt 3. sexuelle Enthaltsamkeit
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 Ehre
- Ehren plural
- Ehr alternative dialectal poetic
- Ehr' alternative dialectal poetic
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Ehre
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Ehre in German?
Ehre appears 34 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).