Vokabahn

die / der Ahne

B2 Noun frequency rank #11,379

What Ahne means

Noun

  1. forefather, ancestor (of male or unspecified sex)
  2. female ancestor
  3. grandmother

Forms

die Ahne · die Ahnen | der Ahne · die Ahnen

Plural: Ahnen

Pronunciation

Ahne in a sentence

Ihre Ahnen stammten aus Schlesien.

Her ancestors came from Silesia.

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Ahne is B2 German — upper-intermediate vocabulary, ranked #11,379 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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