befehden
German, verb
befehden is spelled B-E-F-E-H-D-E-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 43 million words in written German, the 391,488th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Befehden is a German verb meaning “to feud” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Befehden is a different word: “gerund of befehden”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “sich mit einem Gegner in einem anhaltenden Streit (Fehde) befinden”.
What does befehden mean in English?
verb
- 1
to feud
- 2
to feud with
noun
- 1
neutergerund of befehden
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. sich mit einem Gegner in einem anhaltenden Streit (Fehde) befinden 2. bekämpfen
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 befehden
- befehdet present singular third-person
- befehdete past
- haben auxiliary
- befehdend participle present
- befehde first-person indicative present
- befehdest indicative present second-person
- befehdeten first-person indicative plural
- befehdetest indicative preterite second-person
- befehdetet indicative plural preterite
- befehd imperative second-person singular
- habe befehdet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben befehdet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- befehd! imperative singular
- befehde! imperative singular
- befehdet! imperative plural
- befehdet haben active infinitive perfect
- befehdet werden processual-passive infinitive present
- befehdet worden sein processual-passive infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is befehden in German?
befehden appears about once in every 43 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).