hochheben
German, verb
hochheben is spelled H-O-C-H-H-E-B-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 74,397th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hochheben is a German verb meaning “to lift, raise” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Hochheben is a different word: “gerund of hochheben”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas von unten nach oben bewegen (meistens mit der Hand)”.
What does hochheben mean in English?
verb
- 1
to lift, raise
noun
- 1
neutergerund of hochheben
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas von unten nach oben bewegen (meistens mit der Hand)
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 hochheben
- hebt hoch present singular third-person
- hob hoch past
- hub hoch archaic past
- hochgehoben participle past
- höbe hoch past subjunctive
- hübe hoch archaic past subjunctive
- haben auxiliary
- 6 strong
- hochhebend participle present
- hochzuheben infinitive infinitive-zu
- hebe hoch first-person indicative present
- heben hoch first-person indicative plural
- hebst hoch indicative present second-person
- hebest hoch second-person singular subjunctive
- hebet hoch plural second-person subjunctive
- hoben hoch first-person indicative plural
- huben hoch archaic first-person indicative
- höben hoch first-person formal plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to hochheben
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is hochheben in German?
hochheben appears about once in every 3 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).