bedecken
German, verb
bedecken is spelled B-E-D-E-C-K-E-N (8 letters) and appears 2.4 times per million words in written German, the 21,211th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bedecken is a German verb meaning “to cover” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Bedecken is a different word: “gerund of bedecken”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas über etwas/jemanden legen (oft zum Schutze vor zum Beispiel Kälte oder Blicken)”.
What does bedecken mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cover
- 2
to make mate
noun
- 1
neutergerund of bedecken
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas über etwas/jemanden legen (oft zum Schutze vor zum Beispiel Kälte oder Blicken) 2. auf etwas liegen 3. dem Beizvogel die Kappe (Haube) aufsetzen 4. eine Sau packen und festhalten
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 bedecken
- bedeckt present singular third-person
- bedeckte past
- haben auxiliary
- bedeckend participle present
- bedecke first-person indicative present
- bedeckst indicative present second-person
- bedeckest second-person singular subjunctive
- bedecket plural second-person subjunctive
- bedeckten first-person indicative plural
- bedecktest indicative preterite second-person
- bedecktet indicative plural preterite
- bedeck imperative second-person singular
- habe bedeckt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben bedeckt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- bedecke! imperative singular
- bedeckt! imperative plural
- bedeckt haben active infinitive perfect
- bedeckt 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 bedecken
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bedecken in German?
bedecken appears 2.4 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).