hechten
German, verb
hechten is spelled H-E-C-H-T-E-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written German, the 138,538th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hechten is a German verb meaning “to swan-dive” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Hechten is a different word: “dative plural of Hecht”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “einen Hechtsprung ausführen”.
What does hechten mean in English?
verb
- 1
to swan-dive
- 2
to leap headlong
- 3
to hurry, to properate, to headlong
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Hecht
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. einen Hechtsprung ausführen 2. nach dem Absprung langgestreckt durch die Luft fliegen und etwas zu erreichen suchen 3. eilen oder sich beeilen
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 hechten
- hechtet present singular third-person
- hechtete past
- gehechtet participle past
- haben auxiliary
- hechtend participle present
- hechte first-person indicative present
- hechtest indicative present second-person
- hechteten first-person indicative plural
- hechtetest indicative preterite second-person
- hechtetet indicative plural preterite
- hecht imperative second-person singular
- habe gehechtet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gehechtet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- hecht! imperative singular
- hechte! imperative singular
- hechtet! imperative plural
- sein auxiliary perfect
- gehechtet sein active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to hechten
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is hechten in German?
hechten appears about once in every 7 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).