beerdigen
German, verb
beerdigen is spelled B-E-E-R-D-I-G-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 50,363rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Beerdigen is a German verb meaning “to bury (the deceased)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Beerdigen is a different word: “gerund of beerdigen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “einen Verstorbenen in der Erde (meist in einem Sarg) begraben, beisetzen”.
What does beerdigen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to bury (the deceased)
- 2
to deep six
noun
- 1
neutergerund of beerdigen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. einen Verstorbenen in der Erde (meist in einem Sarg) begraben, beisetzen
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 beerdigen
- beerdigt present singular third-person
- beerdigte past
- haben auxiliary
- beerdigend participle present
- beerdige first-person indicative present
- beerdigst indicative present second-person
- beerdigest second-person singular subjunctive
- beerdiget plural second-person subjunctive
- beerdigten first-person indicative plural
- beerdigtest indicative preterite second-person
- beerdigtet indicative plural preterite
- beerdig imperative second-person singular
- habe beerdigt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben beerdigt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- beerdige! imperative singular
- beerdigt! imperative plural
- beerdigt haben active infinitive perfect
- beerdigt 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 beerdigen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is beerdigen in German?
beerdigen appears about once in every 1 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).