bedauern
German, verb
bedauern is spelled B-E-D-A-U-E-R-N (8 letters) and appears 6.3 times per million words in written German, the 10,247th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bedauern is a German verb meaning “to regret” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Bedauern is a different word: “regret”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemanden bemitleiden, mit jemandem fühlen”.
What does bedauern mean in English?
verb
- 1
to regret
zutiefst bedauern.
- 2
to pity
noun
- 1
neuterregret
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. jemanden bemitleiden, mit jemandem fühlen 2. etwas unerfreulich finden, bereuen
noun: 1. Mitgefühl mit anderen 2. negatives Gefühl über seine eigenen Handlungen
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 bedauern
- bedauert present singular third-person
- bedauerte past
- haben auxiliary
- bedauernd participle present
- bedaure first-person indicative present
- bedauere first-person indicative present
- bedauer first-person indicative present
- bedauerst indicative present second-person
- bedauerest second-person singular subjunctive
- bedaurest second-person singular subjunctive
- bedaueret plural second-person subjunctive
- bedauret plural second-person subjunctive
- bedauerten first-person indicative plural
- bedauertest indicative preterite second-person
- bedauertet indicative plural preterite
- bedauere! imperative singular
- bedaure! imperative singular
- bedauert! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to bedauern
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bedauern in German?
bedauern appears 6.3 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).