ehren
German, verb
ehren is spelled E-H-R-E-N (5 letters) and appears 20 times per million words in written German, the 3,888th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ehren is a German verb meaning “to honor” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Ehren is a different word: “plural of Ehre”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemanden hoch schätzen; Hochachtung zeigen”.
What does ehren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to honor
noun
- 1
feminineplural of Ehre
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. jemanden hoch schätzen; Hochachtung zeigen 2. etwas gereicht jemandem zur Ehre 3. Respekt zollen 4. jemanden auszeichnen
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 ehren
- ehrt present singular third-person
- ehrte past
- geehrt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- ehrend participle present
- ehre first-person indicative present
- ehrst indicative present second-person
- ehrest second-person singular subjunctive
- ehret plural second-person subjunctive
- ehrten first-person indicative plural
- ehrtest indicative preterite second-person
- ehrtet indicative plural preterite
- ehr imperative second-person singular
- habe geehrt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geehrt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- ehre! imperative singular
- ehrt! imperative plural
- geehrt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to ehren
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ehren in German?
ehren appears 20 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).