näherstehen
German, verb
näherstehen is spelled N-Ä-H-E-R-S-T-E-H-E-N (11 letters) and appears about once in every 50 million words in written German, the 428,887th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Näherstehen is a German verb meaning “to be closer (to sb)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does näherstehen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to be closer (to sb)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of näherstehen
- steht näher present singular third-person
- stand näher past
- nähergestanden participle past
- stände näher past subjunctive
- stünde näher past subjunctive
- sein auxiliary
- näherstehend participle present
- näherzustehen infinitive infinitive-zu
- stehe näher first-person indicative present
- stehen näher first-person indicative plural
- stehst näher indicative present second-person
- stehest näher second-person singular subjunctive
- stehet näher plural second-person subjunctive
- standen näher first-person indicative plural
- ständen näher first-person plural subjunctive
- stünden näher first-person plural subjunctive
- standest näher indicative preterite second-person
- standst näher indicative preterite second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is näherstehen in German?
näherstehen appears about once in every 50 million words in written German.
näherstehen0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000
rarerper million words of written Germanmore common
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).