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minnen

German, verb/ˈmɪnən/

minnen is spelled M-I-N-N-E-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 28 million words in written German, the 309,493rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Minnen is a German verb meaning “to love” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does minnen mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to love

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Forms of minnen

  • minnt present singular third-person
  • minnte past
  • geminnt participle past
  • haben auxiliary
  • minnend participle present
  • minne first-person indicative present
  • minnst indicative present second-person
  • minnest second-person singular subjunctive
  • minnet plural second-person subjunctive
  • minnten first-person indicative plural
  • minntest indicative preterite second-person
  • minntet indicative plural preterite
  • minn imperative second-person singular
  • habe geminnt first-person indicative multiword-construction
  • haben geminnt first-person indicative multiword-construction

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce minnen?

  • /ˈmɪnən/

Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is minnen in German?

minnen appears about once in every 28 million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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