beeinflussen
German, verb
beeinflussen is spelled B-E-E-I-N-F-L-U-S-S-E-N (12 letters) and appears 18 times per million words in written German, the 4,345th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Beeinflussen is a German verb meaning “to influence” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Beeinflussen is a different word: “gerund of beeinflussen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “auf jemand oder etwas Wirkung ausüben”.
What does beeinflussen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to influence
noun
- 1
neutergerund of beeinflussen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. auf jemand oder etwas Wirkung ausüben
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 beeinflussen
- beeinflusst present singular third-person
- beeinflusste past
- haben auxiliary
- beeinflussend participle present
- beeinflusse first-person indicative present
- beeinflussest second-person singular subjunctive
- beeinflusset plural second-person subjunctive
- beeinflussten first-person indicative plural
- beeinflusstest indicative preterite second-person
- beeinflusstet indicative plural preterite
- beeinfluss imperative second-person singular
- habe beeinflusst first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben beeinflusst first-person indicative multiword-construction
- beeinflusse! imperative singular
- beeinflusst! imperative plural
- beeinflusst haben active infinitive perfect
- beeinflusst werden processual-passive infinitive present
- beeinflusst worden sein processual-passive infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to beeinflussen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is beeinflussen in German?
beeinflussen appears 18 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).