hersagen
German, verb
hersagen is spelled H-E-R-S-A-G-E-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 56 million words in written German, the 458,101st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hersagen is a German verb meaning “to recite” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Hersagen is a different word: “gerund of hersagen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “einen Text auswendig vortragen”.
What does hersagen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to recite
ein Gedicht hersagen
noun
- 1
neutergerund of hersagen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. einen Text auswendig vortragen
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 hersagen
- sagt her present singular third-person
- sagte her past
- hergesagt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- hersagend participle present
- herzusagen infinitive infinitive-zu
- sage her first-person indicative present
- sagen her first-person indicative plural
- sagst her indicative present second-person
- sagest her second-person singular subjunctive
- saget her plural second-person subjunctive
- sagten her first-person indicative plural
- sagtest her indicative preterite second-person
- sagtet her indicative plural preterite
- sag her! imperative singular
- sagt her! imperative plural
- hergesagt haben active infinitive perfect
- hergesagt werden processual-passive infinitive present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is hersagen in German?
hersagen appears about once in every 56 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).