offenbaren
German, verb
offenbaren is spelled O-F-F-E-N-B-A-R-E-N (10 letters) and appears 3.0 times per million words in written German, the 18,198th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Offenbaren is a German verb meaning “to reveal, to disclose” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an umlaut, öffenbaren is a different word: “strong genitive masculine/neuter singular”. With a capital, Offenbaren is a different word: “gerund of offenbaren”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas sagen, das vorher geheim war”.
What does offenbaren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to reveal, to disclose
- 2
to become evident
- 3
to reveal oneself
adjective
- 1
masculineneuterstrong genitive masculine/neuter singular
- 2
weak/mixed genitive/dative all-gender singular
- 3
masculinestrong/weak/mixed accusative masculine singular
- 4
strong dative plural
- 5
weak/mixed all-case plural
noun
- 1
neutergerund of offenbaren
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas sagen, das vorher geheim war 2. sich an jemanden wenden und der Person Wissen anvertrauen
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 offenbaren
- offenbart present singular third-person
- offenbarte past
- geoffenbart participle past
- haben auxiliary
- offenbarend participle present
- offenbare first-person indicative present
- offenbarst indicative present second-person
- offenbarest second-person singular subjunctive
- offenbaret plural second-person subjunctive
- offenbarten first-person indicative plural
- offenbartest indicative preterite second-person
- offenbartet indicative plural preterite
- offenbar imperative second-person singular
- offenbare! imperative singular
- offenbart! imperative plural
- offenbart haben active infinitive perfect
- geoffenbart haben active infinitive perfect
- offenbart werden processual-passive infinitive present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to offenbaren
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is offenbaren in German?
offenbaren appears 3.0 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).