hören
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German[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle High German and 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
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 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, with auf + accusative) to listen (to pay attention to a sound or speech; to accept advice or obey instruction)
- 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]
Hören can be used in a so-called "accusative with infinitive" construction (as in English): Ich hörte ihn rufen. – “I heard him call.” If such a sentence is in the perfect or pluperfect tense, the infinitive usually replaces the past participle: Ich hatte ihn rufen hören. – “I had heard him call.” 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.
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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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