beben
German, verb
beben is spelled B-E-B-E-N (5 letters) and appears 3.1 times per million words in written German, the 17,543rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Beben is a German verb meaning “to shake, to quiver” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Beben is a different word: “a quake, shaking or trembling”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “stark erzittern”.
What does beben mean in English?
verb
- 1
to shake, to quiver
Die Erde bebte.
noun
- 1
neutera quake, shaking or trembling
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. stark erzittern
noun: 1. Erschütterungen des Bodens
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 beben
- bebt present singular third-person
- bebte past
- gebebt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- bebend participle present
- bebe first-person indicative present
- bebst indicative present second-person
- bebest second-person singular subjunctive
- bebet plural second-person subjunctive
- bebten first-person indicative plural
- bebtest indicative preterite second-person
- bebtet indicative plural preterite
- beb imperative second-person singular
- habe gebebt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gebebt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- bebe! imperative singular
- bebt! imperative plural
- gebebt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to beben
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is beben in German?
beben appears 3.1 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).