beflügeln
German, verb
beflügeln is spelled B-E-F-L-Ü-G-E-L-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 58,632nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Beflügeln is a German verb meaning “to inspire, to spur, to buoy, to stimulate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Beflügeln is a different word: “gerund of beflügeln”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “eine bereits vorhandene Tendenz verstärken”.
What does beflügeln mean in English?
verb
- 1
to inspire, to spur, to buoy, to stimulate
die Fantasie beflügeln
noun
- 1
neutergerund of beflügeln
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. eine bereits vorhandene Tendenz verstärken
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 beflügeln
- beflügelt present singular third-person
- beflügelte past
- haben auxiliary
- beflügelnd participle present
- beflügle first-person indicative present
- beflügele first-person indicative present
- beflügel first-person indicative present
- beflügelst indicative present second-person
- beflügelest second-person singular subjunctive
- beflüglest second-person singular subjunctive
- beflügelet plural second-person subjunctive
- beflüglet plural second-person subjunctive
- beflügelten first-person indicative plural
- beflügeltest indicative preterite second-person
- beflügeltet indicative plural preterite
- beflügle! imperative singular
- beflügele! imperative singular
- beflügelt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is beflügeln in German?
beflügeln appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).