hören
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German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German hœren, from Old High German hōren. Compare Dutch horen, English hear, Danish høre.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈhøːrən/, [ˈhøːʁən], [ˈhøːrən] (standard)
- IPA(key): /ˈhøːɐn/, /høːɐ̯n/, /hœɐ̯n/ (common speech)
Audio (Germany): (file) Audio (Germany): (file) Audio (Austria): (file) - Rhymes: -øːʀən, -øːʁən
Verb
[edit]hören (weak, third-person singular present hört, past tense hörte, past participle gehört, auxiliary haben)
- (transitive or intransitive) to hear (to perceive sounds (or a sound) through the ear)
- (transitive) to hear [with accusative ‘someone’ and bare infinitive ‘do something’]
- Ich hörte ihn rufen. ― I heard him call.
- Ich hatte' ihn rufen hören. ― I heard him call.
- (transitive) to listen to, pay attention to (to give (someone) one's attention)
- (transitive, of a lecture) to attend, to go to, to sit in on
- (transitive, of a radio signal) to get, to receive
- (intransitive) to listen (to pay attention to a sound or speech; to accept advice or obey instruction) [with auf (+ accusative) ‘to someone’]
- Du musst auf deine Eltern hören.
- You have to listen to your parents.
- (intransitive) to hear (to receive information; to come to learn)
- (intransitive) to hear (to be contacted (by))
Usage notes
[edit]When hören is used with an accusative and bare infinitive and put into the perfect or pluperfect tense, the infinitive usually replaces the past participle, as in the example above. The use of the past participle instead does occur in some speakers, but is ungrammatical to many others.
Conjugation
[edit]infinitive | hören | ||||
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present participle | hörend | ||||
past participle | gehört | ||||
auxiliary | haben | ||||
indicative | subjunctive | ||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
present | ich höre | wir hören | i | ich höre | wir hören |
du hörst | ihr hört | du hörest | ihr höret | ||
er hört | sie hören | er höre | sie hören | ||
preterite | ich hörte | wir hörten | ii | ich hörte1 | wir hörten1 |
du hörtest | ihr hörtet | du hörtest1 | ihr hörtet1 | ||
er hörte | sie hörten | er hörte1 | sie hörten1 | ||
imperative | hör (du) höre (du) |
hört (ihr) |
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Derived terms
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “hören” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “hören” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “hören” in Duden online
hören on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
Swedish
[edit]Verb
[edit]hören
- inflection of höra:
- (obsolete) second-person plural present indicative
- (archaic or dialectal) second-person plural imperative
- Hören, I döve; I blinde, skåden och sen
- Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see (Isaiah 42:18)
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