Also means
listen
Usage Note
hören covers both hearing and listening; for active, attentive listening Germans add the prefix in zuhören (+ dative). With auf it means to heed someone: hör auf mich!. The greeting-related Hörst du? checks whether you're paying attention.
Examples
"Ich höre gern Musik."
Natural Translation
I like listening to music.
Literal Translation
I hear gladly music.
Related Words
- Akkommodation accommodation (focusing adjustment of the eye lens)
- Anosmie anosmia, loss of smell
- Blick look
- Bogengang semicircular canal (inner ear)
- Brennen burning sensation
- Dunkeladaptation dark adaptation (eye adjustment from light to darkness)
- Dämmerungssehen twilight vision, scotopic vision
- Eigengeruch body odour; characteristic personal scent
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