Sehne
German, noun
Sehne is spelled S-E-H-N-E (5 letters) and appears 2.3 times per million words in written German, the 21,930th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sehne is a German feminine noun meaning “sinew” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, sehne is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Band aus Bindegewebe zwischen Muskeln und Knochen zur wechselseitigen Übertragung der im Bewegungsablauf…”.
What does Sehne mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininesinew
- 2
feminineshort for Bogensehne: bowstring
- 3
femininechord, a straight line between two points of a curve
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- 3
singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Band aus Bindegewebe zwischen Muskeln und Knochen zur wechselseitigen Übertragung der im Bewegungsablauf auftretenden mechanischen Kräfte 2. die kürzeste Verbindungsstrecke zwischen zwei Punkten auf einem Kreis oder einer anderen gekrümmten Kurve. 3. Teil eines Bogens
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 Sehne
- Sehnen plural
- Senne alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Sehne
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Sehne in German?
Sehne appears 2.3 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).