beanspruchen
German, verb
beanspruchen is spelled B-E-A-N-S-P-R-U-C-H-E-N (12 letters) and appears 3.6 times per million words in written German, the 15,594th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Beanspruchen is a German verb meaning “to claim (to demand ownership of something)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Beanspruchen is a different word: “gerund of beanspruchen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “einen Anspruch erheben; eine Forderung stellen”.
What does beanspruchen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to claim (to demand ownership of something)
- 2
to require
- 3
to demand
noun
- 1
neutergerund of beanspruchen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. einen Anspruch erheben; eine Forderung stellen 2. durch Benutzung beschädigen 3. jemandem viel abverlangen; Anstrengungen von jemandem einfordern 4. erfordern; benötigen
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 beanspruchen
- beansprucht present singular third-person
- beanspruchte past
- haben auxiliary
- beanspruchend participle present
- beanspruche first-person indicative present
- beanspruchst indicative present second-person
- beanspruchest second-person singular subjunctive
- beanspruchet plural second-person subjunctive
- beanspruchten first-person indicative plural
- beanspruchtest indicative preterite second-person
- beanspruchtet indicative plural preterite
- beanspruch imperative second-person singular
- habe beansprucht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben beansprucht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- beanspruche! imperative singular
- beansprucht! imperative plural
- beansprucht haben active infinitive perfect
- beansprucht werden processual-passive infinitive present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to beanspruchen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is beanspruchen in German?
beanspruchen appears 3.6 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).