geloben
German, verb/ɡəˈloːbən/
geloben is spelled G-E-L-O-B-E-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 81,387th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Geloben is a German verb meaning “to vow (to make a vow)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas feierlich versprechen”.
What does geloben mean in English?
verb
- 1
to vow (to make a vow)
das gelobte Land
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas feierlich versprechen
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 geloben
- gelobt present singular third-person
- gelobte past
- haben auxiliary
- gelobend participle present
- gelobe first-person indicative present
- gelobst indicative present second-person
- gelobest second-person singular subjunctive
- gelobet plural second-person subjunctive
- gelobten first-person indicative plural
- gelobtest indicative preterite second-person
- gelobtet indicative plural preterite
- gelob imperative second-person singular
- habe gelobt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gelobt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- gel. abbreviation
- gelob! imperative singular
- gelobe! imperative singular
- gelobt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce geloben?
- /ɡəˈloːbən/
- Germany /-ˈloːbm̩/
- /ɡ̊eˈloːb̥ɛn/
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to geloben
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is geloben in German?
geloben appears about once in every 3 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).