hören

From Old High German hōren, from Proto-Germanic *hauzijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ḱh₂owsyéti. Compare Dutch horen, English hear, Danish høre.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhøːrən/, [ˈhøːʁən], [ˈhøːrən] (standard)
• IPA^(key): /ˈhøːɐn/, /høːɐ̯n/, /hœɐ̯n/ (common speech)

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• Rhymes: -øːʀən

hören (third-person singular simple present hört, past tense hörte, past participle gehört, auxiliary haben)

1. (transitive or intransitive) to hear (to perceive sounds (or a sound) through the ear)
2. (transitive) to listen to, pay attention to (to give (someone) one's attention)
3. (transitive, of a lecture) to attend, to go to, to sit in on
4. (transitive, of a radio signal) to get, to receive
5. (intransitive) to listen (to pay attention to a sound or speech; to accept advice or obey instruction)
6. (intransitive) to hear (to receive information; to come to learn)
7. (intransitive) to hear (to be contacted (by))

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.

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hören

1. Obsolete plural form of hör, present tense of höra.
2. Obsolete plural form of hör, imperative of höra.

   Hören, I döve; I blinde, skåden och sen

   Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see (Isaiah 42:18)