hörnen
German, verb/ˈhœʁnən/
hörnen is spelled H-Ö-R-N-E-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 95 million words in written German, the 618,004th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hörnen is a German verb meaning “to cuckold” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “den Ehepartner (meist jedoch den Ehemann) mit einem anderen Partner betrügen”.
What does hörnen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cuckold
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. den Ehepartner (meist jedoch den Ehemann) mit einem anderen Partner betrügen
adjective: 1. aus Horn bestehend/gemacht
verb: 1. mit Hörnern versehen, zum Hahnrei machen
verb: 1. das Instrument Horn spielen
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 hörnen
- hörnt present singular third-person
- hörnte past
- gehörnt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- hörnend participle present
- hörne first-person indicative present
- hörnst indicative present second-person
- hörnest second-person singular subjunctive
- hörnet plural second-person subjunctive
- hörnten first-person indicative plural
- hörntest indicative preterite second-person
- hörntet indicative plural preterite
- hörn imperative second-person singular
- habe gehörnt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gehörnt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- hörn! imperative singular
- hörne! imperative singular
- hörnt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce hörnen?
- /ˈhœʁnən/
- [ˈhœʁnən]
- [ˈhɔʁnən]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to hörnen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is hörnen in German?
hörnen appears about once in every 95 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).