empören
German, verb
empören is spelled E-M-P-Ö-R-E-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 44,523rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Empören is a German verb meaning “to be outraged” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Empören is a different word: “gerund of empören”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “zornig werden, sich ärgern”.
What does empören mean in English?
verb
- 1
to be outraged
- 2
to outrage
noun
- 1
neutergerund of empören
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. zornig werden, sich ärgern 2. zornig machen
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 empören
- empört present singular third-person
- empörte past
- haben auxiliary
- empörend participle present
- empöre first-person indicative present
- empörst indicative present second-person
- empörest second-person singular subjunctive
- empöret plural second-person subjunctive
- empörten first-person indicative plural
- empörtest indicative preterite second-person
- empörtet indicative plural preterite
- empör imperative second-person singular
- habe empört first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben empört first-person indicative multiword-construction
- empöre! imperative singular
- empört! imperative plural
- empört haben active infinitive perfect
- empört werden processual-passive infinitive present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to empören
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is empören in German?
empören appears about once in every 1 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).