bedrohen
German, verb
bedrohen is spelled B-E-D-R-O-H-E-N (8 letters) and appears 4.1 times per million words in written German, the 14,267th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bedrohen is a German verb meaning “to threaten, menace” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Bedrohen is a different word: “gerund of bedrohen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemanden durch die Ankündigung von Gewalt oder Sanktionen einschüchtern oder zwingen, etwas zu tun”.
What does bedrohen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to threaten, menace
noun
- 1
neutergerund of bedrohen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. jemanden durch die Ankündigung von Gewalt oder Sanktionen einschüchtern oder zwingen, etwas zu tun 2. jemanden oder etwas durch äußere Umstände in existenzielle Not geraten lassen
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 bedrohen
- bedroht present singular third-person
- bedrohte past
- haben auxiliary
- bedrohend participle present
- bedrohe first-person indicative present
- bedrohst indicative present second-person
- bedrohest second-person singular subjunctive
- bedrohet plural second-person subjunctive
- bedrohten first-person indicative plural
- bedrohtest indicative preterite second-person
- bedrohtet indicative plural preterite
- bedroh imperative second-person singular
- habe bedroht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben bedroht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- bedrohe! imperative singular
- bedroht! imperative plural
- bedroht haben active infinitive perfect
- bedroht 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 bedrohen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bedrohen in German?
bedrohen appears 4.1 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).