ausbessern
German, verb
ausbessern is spelled A-U-S-B-E-S-S-E-R-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 56,036th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ausbessern is a German verb meaning “to mend, to fix” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Ausbessern is a different word: “gerund of ausbessern”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “eine beschädigte Stelle beseitigen, meist wenn der Schaden nicht sehr groß ist und die Funktion nicht…”.
What does ausbessern mean in English?
verb
- 1
to mend, to fix
noun
- 1
neutergerund of ausbessern
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. eine beschädigte Stelle beseitigen, meist wenn der Schaden nicht sehr groß ist und die Funktion nicht vollkommen verloren ist
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 ausbessern
- bessert aus present singular third-person
- besserte aus past
- ausgebessert participle past
- haben auxiliary
- ausbessernd participle present
- auszubessern infinitive infinitive-zu
- bessre aus first-person indicative present
- bessere aus first-person indicative present
- besser aus first-person indicative present
- bessern aus first-person indicative plural
- besserst aus indicative present second-person
- besserest aus second-person singular subjunctive
- bessrest aus second-person singular subjunctive
- besseret aus plural second-person subjunctive
- bessret aus plural second-person subjunctive
- besserten aus first-person indicative plural
- bessertest aus indicative preterite second-person
- bessertet aus indicative plural preterite
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to ausbessern
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ausbessern in German?
ausbessern appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).