jähren
German, verb
jähren is spelled J-Ä-H-R-E-N (6 letters) and appears 676 times per million words in written German, the 143rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Jähren is a German verb meaning “to become one year old(er); to complete a year (or a specified number of years)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, Jahren is a different word: “dative plural of Jahr”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “ein Jahr zurück liegen, seinen Jahrestag haben”.
What does jähren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to become one year old(er); to complete a year (or a specified number of years)
sich zum zehnten Mal jähren
noun
- 1
dative plural of Jahr
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. ein Jahr zurück liegen, seinen Jahrestag haben
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 jähren
- jährt present singular third-person
- jährte past
- gejährt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- jährend participle present
- jähre first-person indicative present
- jährst indicative present second-person
- jährest second-person singular subjunctive
- jähret plural second-person subjunctive
- jährten first-person indicative plural
- jährtest indicative preterite second-person
- jährtet indicative plural preterite
- jähr imperative second-person singular
- habe gejährt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gejährt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- jähr! imperative singular
- jähre! imperative singular
- jährt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is jähren in German?
jähren appears 676 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).