beehren
German, verb/bəˈʔeːʁən/
beehren is a German verb meaning “to compliment” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemandem die Freude (Ehre) der Anwesenheit oder eines Besuches zuteilwerden lassen”.
What does beehren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to compliment
- 2
to favor
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. jemandem die Freude (Ehre) der Anwesenheit oder eines Besuches zuteilwerden lassen 2. besuchen 3. die Freude (Ehre) haben, etwas mitzuteilen
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 beehren
- beehrt present singular third-person
- beehrte past
- haben auxiliary
- beehrend participle present
- beehre first-person indicative present
- beehrst indicative present second-person
- beehrest second-person singular subjunctive
- beehret plural second-person subjunctive
- beehrten first-person indicative plural
- beehrtest indicative preterite second-person
- beehrtet indicative plural preterite
- beehr imperative second-person singular
- habe beehrt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben beehrt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- beehr! imperative singular
- beehre! imperative singular
- beehrt! imperative plural
- beehrt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce beehren?
- /bəˈʔeːʁən/
- [bəˈʔeːʁən]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is beehren in German?
beehren appears about once in every 4 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).