hapern
German, verb/ˈhaːpɐn/
hapern is spelled H-A-P-E-R-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 30 million words in written German, the 317,631st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hapern is a German verb meaning “to be scarce, insufficient, stagnant, problematic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “an etwas mangeln (in Regel in Bezug auf Fähigkeiten/Fertigkeiten)”.
What does hapern mean in English?
verb
- 1
to be scarce, insufficient, stagnant, problematic
Es hapert an Bewerbern mit Berufserfahrung.
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. an etwas mangeln (in Regel in Bezug auf Fähigkeiten/Fertigkeiten)
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 hapern
- hapert present singular third-person
- haperte past
- gehapert participle past
- haben auxiliary
- hapernd participle present
- hapre first-person indicative present
- hapere first-person indicative present
- haper first-person indicative present
- haperst indicative present second-person
- haperest second-person singular subjunctive
- haprest second-person singular subjunctive
- haperet plural second-person subjunctive
- hapret plural second-person subjunctive
- haperten first-person indicative plural
- hapertest indicative preterite second-person
- hapertet indicative plural preterite
- gehapert haben active infinitive perfect
- zu hapern active extended infinitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce hapern?
- /ˈhaːpɐn/
- [ˈhaːpɐn]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is hapern in German?
hapern appears about once in every 30 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).