ruhen
German, verb/ˈʁuːən/
ruhen is spelled R-U-H-E-N (5 letters) and appears 8.3 times per million words in written German, the 8,191st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ruhen is a German verb meaning “to rest; to sleep” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “sich erholen, eine Pause machen”.
What does ruhen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to rest; to sleep
- 2
to be buried, to lie
- 3
to be positioned; to rest
- 4
to stall; to be suspended
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. sich erholen, eine Pause machen 2. Position einnehmen 3. vorübergehend stillgelegt sein
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 ruhen
- ruht present singular third-person
- ruhte past
- geruht participle past
- haben auxiliary
- ruhend participle present
- ruhe first-person indicative present
- ruhst indicative present second-person
- ruhest second-person singular subjunctive
- ruhet plural second-person subjunctive
- ruhten first-person indicative plural
- ruhtest indicative preterite second-person
- ruhtet indicative plural preterite
- ruh imperative second-person singular
- habe geruht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geruht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- ruh! imperative singular
- ruht! imperative plural
- geruht haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ruhen?
- /ˈʁuːən/
- [ˈʁuːən]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ruhen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ruhen in German?
ruhen appears 8.3 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).