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haten

German, verb[ˈhɛɪ̯tn̩]

haten is spelled H-A-T-E-N (5 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 42,412th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Haten is a German verb meaning “to hate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does haten mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to hate

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Forms of haten

  • hatet present singular third-person
  • hatete past
  • gehatet participle past
  • haben auxiliary
  • hatend participle present
  • hate first-person indicative present
  • hatest indicative present second-person
  • hateten first-person indicative plural
  • hatetest indicative preterite second-person
  • hatetet indicative plural preterite
  • hat imperative second-person singular
  • habe gehatet first-person indicative multiword-construction
  • haben gehatet first-person indicative multiword-construction

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce haten?

  • [ˈhɛɪ̯tn̩]
  • [ˈhɛɪ̯tən]

Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is haten in German?

haten appears about once in every 1 million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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