befragen
German, verb
befragen is a German verb meaning “to question, to interview, to interrogate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Befragen is a different word: “gerund of befragen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “um mehrere Auskünfte bitten; Fragen an jemanden stellen”.
What does befragen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to question, to interview, to interrogate
noun
- 1
neutergerund of befragen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. um mehrere Auskünfte bitten; Fragen an jemanden stellen
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of befragen
- befragt present singular third-person
- befragte past
- haben auxiliary
- befragend participle present
- befrage first-person indicative present
- befragst indicative present second-person
- befragest second-person singular subjunctive
- befraget plural second-person subjunctive
- befragten first-person indicative plural
- befragtest indicative preterite second-person
- befragtet indicative plural preterite
- befrag imperative second-person singular
- habe befragt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben befragt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- befrag! imperative singular
- befrage! imperative singular
- befragt! imperative plural
- befragt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to befragen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is befragen in German?
befragen appears 4.9 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).