Habe
German, noun
Habe is spelled H-A-B-E (4 letters) and appears 2,138 times per million words in written German, the 62nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Habe is a German feminine noun meaning “belongings, possession” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, habe is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “das, was man besitzt”.
What does Habe mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininebelongings, possession
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- 3
singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. das, was man besitzt
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
English words that translate to Habe
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Habe in German?
Habe appears 2,138 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).