flehen
German, verb
flehen is spelled F-L-E-H-E-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 40,460th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Flehen is a German verb meaning “to entreat, to beg” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Flehen is a different word: “plea, supplication”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “emotional, stark untersetzt, bei jemandem um etwas bitten”.
What does flehen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to entreat, to beg
noun
- 1
datedneuterplea, supplication
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. emotional, stark untersetzt, bei jemandem um etwas bitten 2. zu jemandem oder etwas beten
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 flehen
- fleht present singular third-person
- flehte past
- gefleht participle past
- haben auxiliary
- flehend participle present
- flehe first-person indicative present
- flehst indicative present second-person
- flehest second-person singular subjunctive
- flehet plural second-person subjunctive
- flehten first-person indicative plural
- flehtest indicative preterite second-person
- flehtet indicative plural preterite
- fleh imperative second-person singular
- habe gefleht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gefleht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- flehe! imperative singular
- fleh! imperative singular
- fleht! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to flehen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is flehen in German?
flehen 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).