gehaben
German, verb/ɡəˈhaːbən/
gehaben is spelled G-E-H-A-B-E-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written German, the 146,442nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gehaben is a German verb meaning “to behave, behave oneself” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does gehaben mean in English?
verb
- 1
Austriaarchaicto behave, behave oneself.
sich wie ein Kind gehaben
- 2
archaicto fare
Gehab dich wohl!
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. die Art, wie sich jemand benimmt 2. die Art, wie sich jemand übertrieben benimmt
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 gehaben
- gehabt present singular third-person
- gehabte past
- haben auxiliary
- gehabend participle present
- gehabe first-person indicative present
- gehabst indicative present second-person
- gehabest second-person singular subjunctive
- gehabet plural second-person subjunctive
- gehabten first-person indicative plural
- gehabtest indicative preterite second-person
- gehabtet indicative plural preterite
- gehab imperative second-person singular
- habe gehabt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gehabt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- Gehabens genitive singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce gehaben?
- /ɡəˈhaːbən/
- [ɡəˈhäːbən]
- [ɡəˈhäːbn̩]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is gehaben in German?
gehaben appears about once in every 8 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).