gewohnt
German, adjective
gewohnt is spelled G-E-W-O-H-N-T (7 letters) and appears 25 times per million words in written German, the 3,246th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gewohnt is a German adjective meaning “usual, customary, familiar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of wohnen. With an umlaut, gewöhnt is a different word: “past participle of gewöhnen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “so, wie man es kennt; so, dass man es nicht anders kennt”.
What does gewohnt mean in English?
adjective
- 1
usual, customary, familiar
- 2
used to, wont, familiar
verb
- 1
past participle of wohnen
verb
- 1
past participle of gewöhnen
verb
- 1
second-person plural present
- 2
third-person singular present
- 3
plural imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. so, wie man es kennt; so, dass man es nicht anders kennt
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 gewohnt
- gewohnter masculine nominative singular
- gewohnte feminine nominative singular
- gewohntes neuter nominative singular
- gewohnten genitive masculine singular
- gewohntem dative masculine singular
- der gewohnte definite includes-article masculine
- die gewohnte definite feminine includes-article
- das gewohnte definite includes-article neuter
- die gewohnten definite includes-article nominative
- des gewohnten definite genitive includes-article
- der gewohnten definite feminine genitive
- dem gewohnten dative definite includes-article
- den gewohnten dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to gewohnt
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is gewohnt in German?
gewohnt appears 25 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).