Mühe
German, noun
Mühe is spelled M-Ü-H-E (4 letters) and appears 35 times per million words in written German, the 2,344th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mühe is a German feminine noun meaning “effort, difficulty” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, muhe is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “körperliche oder geistige Anstrengung”.
What does Mühe mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineeffort, difficulty
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- 3
singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. körperliche oder geistige Anstrengung
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 Mühe
- Mühen plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Mühe
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Mühe in German?
Mühe appears 35 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).