hebeln
German, verb
hebeln is spelled H-E-B-E-L-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 58,632nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hebeln is a German verb meaning “to lever” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Hebeln is a different word: “dative plural of Hebel”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas mithilfe eines Hebels oder eines Hebelgriffes in die Höhe heben oder von der Stelle bewegen”.
What does hebeln mean in English?
verb
- 1
to lever
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Hebel
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas mithilfe eines Hebels oder eines Hebelgriffes in die Höhe heben oder von der Stelle bewegen 2. etwas mit Sauerteig versehen, etwas säuern
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 hebeln
- hebelt present singular third-person
- hebelte past
- gehebelt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- hebelnd participle present
- heble first-person indicative present
- hebele first-person indicative present
- hebel first-person indicative present
- hebelst indicative present second-person
- hebelest second-person singular subjunctive
- heblest second-person singular subjunctive
- hebelet plural second-person subjunctive
- heblet plural second-person subjunctive
- hebelten first-person indicative plural
- hebeltest indicative preterite second-person
- hebeltet indicative plural preterite
- hefeln variant
- hebele! imperative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to hebeln
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is hebeln in German?
hebeln appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).