gehandhabt
German, adjective
gehandhabt is spelled G-E-H-A-N-D-H-A-B-T (10 letters) and appears 2.2 times per million words in written German, the 22,661st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gehandhabt is a German adjective meaning “wielded” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of handhaben.
What does gehandhabt mean in English?
adjective
- 1
wielded
- 2
handled
- 3
managed
verb
- 1
past participle of handhaben
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of gehandhabt
- gehandhabter masculine nominative singular
- gehandhabte feminine nominative singular
- gehandhabtes neuter nominative singular
- gehandhabten genitive masculine singular
- gehandhabtem dative masculine singular
- der gehandhabte definite includes-article masculine
- die gehandhabte definite feminine includes-article
- das gehandhabte definite includes-article neuter
- die gehandhabten definite includes-article nominative
- des gehandhabten definite genitive includes-article
- der gehandhabten definite feminine genitive
- dem gehandhabten dative definite includes-article
- den gehandhabten dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce gehandhabt?
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is gehandhabt in German?
gehandhabt appears 2.2 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).