hupen
German, verb
hupen is spelled H-U-P-E-N (5 letters) and appears 1.9 times per million words in written German, the 24,663rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hupen is a German verb meaning “to honk, to sound the horn” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Hupen is a different word: “plural of Hupe”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “eine Hupe am Kraftfahrzeug betätigen, um ein akustisches Signal zu erzeugen”.
What does hupen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to honk, to sound the horn
noun
- 1
plural of Hupe
noun
- 1
neutergerund of hupen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. hupendes Geräusch
verb: 1. eine Hupe am Kraftfahrzeug betätigen, um ein akustisches Signal zu erzeugen 2. eine Hupe am Kraftfahrzeug betätigen, um ein optisches Signal zu erzeugen
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 hupen
- hupt present singular third-person
- hupte past
- gehupt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- hupend participle present
- hupe first-person indicative present
- hupst indicative present second-person
- hupest second-person singular subjunctive
- hupet plural second-person subjunctive
- hupten first-person indicative plural
- huptest indicative preterite second-person
- huptet indicative plural preterite
- hup imperative second-person singular
- habe gehupt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gehupt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- Hupens genitive singular
- hupe! imperative singular
- hupt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to hupen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is hupen in German?
hupen appears 1.9 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).