hörT

Hört is a form that appears in at least two Germanic languages, most notably Swedish and German, with different grammatical functions in each.

In Swedish, höra means “to hear.” Hört is the supine or past participle form of höra and is used with an auxiliary to form perfect tenses, such as har hört (have heard) or hade hört (had heard). It appears in sentences like Jag har hört talas om det (I have heard of it) and Vi har hört ljudet tidigare. The participle drugiminarily does not change for gender or number in Swedish. The form is common in everyday speech and is a standard part of conjugation for the verb höra.

In German, hört is the present tense form of hören for the third person singular and the informal second person plural (Sie form uses hören). It means “he/she/it hears” or “you hear” in informal address (as in Er hört Musik or Hört ihr das?). It is not a past participle in common usage; the corresponding past participle for the related verb gehören is gehört. The German pronunciation is roughly [høːrt].

Etymology links Swedish höra to Old Norse heyra and to the broader Germanic family, aligning with cognates such as English hear and German hören. The word demonstrates how the same surface form hört can serve different grammatical roles in neighboring languages that share a common ancestry.

Overall, hörT functions as a key participial form in Swedish verb conjugation and as a present-tense verb form in German, reflecting the divergent evolutions of the two languages.