kören
German, verb
kören is spelled K-Ö-R-E-N (5 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written German, the 113,526th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kören is a German verb meaning “to choose individual animals for breeding” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person plural subjunctive II of kiesen. Without its umlaut, koren is a different word: “first/third-person plural preterite of kiesen”. On this page, Koren is a different word: “plural of Kore”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “männliche Haustiere nach Rassemerkmalen für die Zucht auswählen”.
What does kören mean in English?
verb
- 1
to choose individual animals for breeding
verb
- 1
first/third-person plural subjunctive II of kiesen
verb
- 1
first/third-person plural preterite of kiesen
- 2
first/third-person plural preterite of küren
noun
- 1
feminineplural of Kore
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. männliche Haustiere nach Rassemerkmalen für die Zucht auswählen
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 kören
- kört present singular third-person
- körte past
- gekört participle past
- haben auxiliary
- körend participle present
- köre first-person indicative present
- körst indicative present second-person
- körest second-person singular subjunctive
- köret plural second-person subjunctive
- körten first-person indicative plural
- körtest indicative preterite second-person
- körtet indicative plural preterite
- kör imperative second-person singular
- habe gekört first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gekört first-person indicative multiword-construction
- kör! imperative singular
- köre! imperative singular
- kört! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is kören in German?
kören appears about once in every 5 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).