beaufsichtigen
German, verb
beaufsichtigen is spelled B-E-A-U-F-S-I-C-H-T-I-G-E-N (14 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 52,012th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Beaufsichtigen is a German verb meaning “to supervise” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Beaufsichtigen is a different word: “gerund of beaufsichtigen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “ein Auge auf etwas haben; kontrollierend überwachen”.
What does beaufsichtigen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to supervise
noun
- 1
neutergerund of beaufsichtigen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. ein Auge auf etwas haben; kontrollierend überwachen
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 beaufsichtigen
- beaufsichtigt present singular third-person
- beaufsichtigte past
- haben auxiliary
- beaufsichtigend participle present
- beaufsichtige first-person indicative present
- beaufsichtigst indicative present second-person
- beaufsichtigest second-person singular subjunctive
- beaufsichtiget plural second-person subjunctive
- beaufsichtigten first-person indicative plural
- beaufsichtigtest indicative preterite second-person
- beaufsichtigtet indicative plural preterite
- beaufsichtig imperative second-person singular
- habe beaufsichtigt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben beaufsichtigt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- beaufsichtig! imperative singular
- beaufsichtige! imperative singular
- beaufsichtigt! imperative plural
- beaufsichtigt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to beaufsichtigen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is beaufsichtigen in German?
beaufsichtigen 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).