bemessen
German, verb
bemessen is a German verb meaning “to assess, to measure, to proportion” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Bemessen is a different word: “gerund of bemessen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “festlegen, welchen Umfang etwas haben soll, und sich dabei an vorhandenen Größen/Eigenschaften/Prioritäten…”.
What does bemessen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to assess, to measure, to proportion
großzügig/knapp bemessen
noun
- 1
neutergerund of bemessen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. festlegen, welchen Umfang etwas haben soll, und sich dabei an vorhandenen Größen/Eigenschaften/Prioritäten orientieren 2. sich in Größe/Umfang nach einem Kriterium richten
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 bemessen
- bemisst present singular third-person
- bemaß past
- bemäße past subjunctive
- haben auxiliary
- 5 strong
- bemessend participle present
- bemesse first-person indicative present
- bemesst indicative plural present
- bemessest second-person singular subjunctive
- bemesset plural second-person subjunctive
- bemaßen first-person indicative plural
- bemäßen first-person formal plural
- bemaßest indicative preterite second-person
- bemaßt indicative preterite second-person
- bemäßest formal rare second-person
- bemäßt formal rare second-person
- bemäßet formal plural rare
- bemiss imperative second-person singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is bemessen in German?
bemessen appears 2.2 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).