erhängen
German, verb
erhängen is spelled E-R-H-Ä-N-G-E-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 43,786th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Erhängen is a German verb meaning “to hang someone (to execute by hanging)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Erhängen is a different word: “gerund of erhängen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemanden/sich töten, indem man ihn/sich mit einer Schlinge um den Hals aufhängt”.
What does erhängen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to hang someone (to execute by hanging)
- 2
to hang oneself (to commit suicide by hanging)
noun
- 1
neutergerund of erhängen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. jemanden/sich töten, indem man ihn/sich mit einer Schlinge um den Hals aufhängt
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 erhängen
- erhängt present singular third-person
- erhängte past
- erhing colloquial past
- erhangen colloquial participle past
- haben auxiliary
- erhängend participle present
- erhänge first-person indicative present
- erhängst indicative present second-person
- erhängest second-person singular subjunctive
- erhänget plural second-person subjunctive
- erhängten first-person indicative plural
- erhingen colloquial first-person indicative
- erhinge colloquial first-person formal
- erhängtest indicative preterite second-person
- erhingst colloquial indicative preterite
- erhängtet indicative plural preterite
- erhingt colloquial indicative plural
- erhingest colloquial formal rare
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is erhängen in German?
erhängen 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).