hinhören
German, verb
hinhören is spelled H-I-N-H-Ö-R-E-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 58,632nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hinhören is a German verb meaning “to listen (mostly attentively)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Hinhören is a different word: “gerund of hinhören”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “aktiv und konzentriert zuhören”.
What does hinhören mean in English?
verb
- 1
to listen (mostly attentively)
noun
- 1
neutergerund of hinhören
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. aktiv und konzentriert zuhören
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 hinhören
- hört hin present singular third-person
- hörte hin past
- hingehört participle past
- haben auxiliary
- hinhörend participle present
- hinzuhören infinitive infinitive-zu
- höre hin first-person indicative present
- hören hin first-person indicative plural
- hörst hin indicative present second-person
- hörest hin second-person singular subjunctive
- höret hin plural second-person subjunctive
- hörten hin first-person indicative plural
- hörtest hin indicative preterite second-person
- hörtet hin indicative plural preterite
- hör hin! imperative singular
- höre hin! imperative singular
- hört hin! imperative plural
- hingehört haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is hinhören in German?
hinhören 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).