rühre

Rühre is the second-person singular imperative form of the German verb rühren, meaning to stir or mix. It is used to instruct someone directly to stir a substance, as commonly found in cooking instructions, recipes, and procedural texts. For example, in a recipe one might read: Rühre die Mischung kräftig um.

Grammatically, rühre belongs to the present tense family of rühren. The present tense forms are ich rühre, du rührst, er rührt, wir rühren, ihr rührt, sie rühren, while the imperative for the informal singular is rühre (often written with capital R and an exclamation mark as Rühre!). The formal imperative uses rühren Sie, and the imperative for the informal plural uses rührt. The past participle is gerührt, as in ich habe gerührt.

In use, rühre appears most often in imperatives addressing a single person in informal contexts, such as home cooking, quick instruction notes, or informal guides. It should be distinguished from related forms like rührst (present indicative) or rührt (you all or he/she/it stirs) which belong to different grammatical moods or persons.

Notes on style and spelling: in written instructions, imperative commands are typically punctuated with an exclamation mark, and capitalization follows standard German capitalization rules for the verb at the beginning of a sentence or in a standalone command. As a form, rühre is specific to addressing a single, familiar listener in the imperative mood.