heischen
German, verb/haɪ̯ʃən/
heischen is spelled H-E-I-S-C-H-E-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written German, the 247,831st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Heischen is a German verb meaning “to request, to ask, to bespeak” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “sich mit Nachdruck bemühen, etwas zu bekommen”.
What does heischen mean in English?
verb
- 1
datedto request, to ask, to bespeak
- 2
datedto beg, to implore
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. sich mit Nachdruck bemühen, etwas zu bekommen
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 heischen
- heischt present singular third-person
- heischte past
- geheischt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- heischend participle present
- heische first-person indicative present
- heischst indicative present second-person
- heischest second-person singular subjunctive
- heischet plural second-person subjunctive
- heischten first-person indicative plural
- heischtest indicative preterite second-person
- heischtet indicative plural preterite
- heisch imperative second-person singular
- habe geheischt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- heisch! imperative singular
- heische! imperative singular
- heischt! imperative plural
- geheischt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce heischen?
- /haɪ̯ʃən/
- /haɪ̯ʃn̩/
- [ˈhaɪ̯ʃn̩]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is heischen in German?
heischen appears about once in every 19 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).