nähern
German, verb
nähern is spelled N-Ä-H-E-R-N (6 letters) and appears 6.5 times per million words in written German, the 10,058th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Nähern is a German verb meaning “to approach, to come near [with dative ‘[something/someone]’]” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Nähern is a different word: “dative plural of Näher”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “sich an etwas heranbewegen, näher herankommen an etwas”.
What does nähern mean in English?
verb
- 1
to approach, to come near [with dative ‘[something/someone]’]
Warum näherst du dich mir?
- 2
to approximate
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Näher
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. sich an etwas heranbewegen, näher herankommen an etwas 2. eine Sache in naher Zeit erreicht haben 3. näheren Kontakt zu jemandem aufnehmen 4. sich immer mehr zu einer Sache entwickeln, in ihre Richtung gehen
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 nähern
- nähert present singular third-person
- näherte past
- genähert participle past
- haben auxiliary
- nähernd participle present
- nähre first-person indicative present
- nähere first-person indicative present
- näher first-person indicative present
- näherst indicative present second-person
- näherest second-person singular subjunctive
- nährest second-person singular subjunctive
- näheret plural second-person subjunctive
- nähret plural second-person subjunctive
- näherten first-person indicative plural
- nähertest indicative preterite second-person
- nähertet indicative plural preterite
- nähere! imperative singular
- nähert! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is nähern in German?
nähern appears 6.5 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).