rührend
German, adjective/ˈʁyːʁənt/
rührend is spelled R-Ü-H-R-E-N-D (7 letters) and appears 1.5 times per million words in written German, the 29,978th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rührend is a German adjective meaning “touching; heart-warming” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a present participle of rühren. The German Wiktionary defines it as “bewegend, emotional berührend, Rührung hervorrufend”.
What does rührend mean in English?
adjective
- 1
touching; heart-warming
verb
- 1
present participle of rühren
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. bewegend, emotional berührend, Rührung hervorrufend
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 rührend
- rührender masculine nominative singular
- am rührendsten superlative
- rührende feminine nominative singular
- rührendes neuter nominative singular
- rührenden genitive masculine singular
- rührendem dative masculine singular
- der rührende definite includes-article masculine
- die rührende definite feminine includes-article
- das rührende definite includes-article neuter
- die rührenden definite includes-article nominative
- des rührenden definite genitive includes-article
- der rührenden definite feminine genitive
- dem rührenden dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rührend?
- /ˈʁyːʁənt/
- [ˈʁyːʁənt]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to rührend
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rührend in German?
rührend appears 1.5 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).