lehren
German, verb
lehren is spelled L-E-H-R-E-N (6 letters) and appears 11 times per million words in written German, the 6,291st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lehren is a German verb meaning “to teach (a class, a subject); to be a teacher” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Lehren is a different word: “plural of Lehre”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemandem etwas (Lehrstoff, Wissen, Fertigkeiten, …) vermitteln, beibringen; jemanden in etwas unterrichten…”.
What does lehren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to teach (a class, a subject); to be a teacher
Ich lehre Geschichte.
- 2
to teach
Meine Großmutter lehrte mich das Stricken.
noun
- 1
plural of Lehre
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. jemandem etwas (Lehrstoff, Wissen, Fertigkeiten, …) vermitteln, beibringen; jemanden in etwas unterrichten, unterweisen 2. lernen, sich Wissen aneignen
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 lehren
- lehrt present singular third-person
- lehrte past
- gelehrt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- lehrend participle present
- lehre first-person indicative present
- lehrst indicative present second-person
- lehrest second-person singular subjunctive
- lehret plural second-person subjunctive
- lehrten first-person indicative plural
- lehrtest indicative preterite second-person
- lehrtet indicative plural preterite
- lehr imperative second-person singular
- habe gelehrt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gelehrt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- lehre! imperative singular
- lehrt! imperative plural
- gelehrt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to lehren
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is lehren in German?
lehren appears 11 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).