befremdend
German, adjective[bəˈfʁɛmdənt]
befremdend is spelled B-E-F-R-E-M-D-E-N-D (10 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written German, the 192,441st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Befremdend is a German adjective meaning “disconcerting, strange, peculiar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a present participle of befremden. The German Wiktionary defines it as “in unangenehmer Art und Weise erstaunlich”.
What does befremdend mean in English?
adjective
- 1
disconcerting, strange, peculiar
verb
- 1
present participle of befremden
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. in unangenehmer Art und Weise erstaunlich
verb: 1. Partizip Präsens des Verbs befremden
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 befremdend
- befremdender masculine nominative singular
- befremdende feminine nominative singular
- befremdendes neuter nominative singular
- befremdenden genitive masculine singular
- befremdendem dative masculine singular
- der befremdende definite includes-article masculine
- die befremdende definite feminine includes-article
- das befremdende definite includes-article neuter
- die befremdenden definite includes-article nominative
- des befremdenden definite genitive includes-article
- der befremdenden definite feminine genitive
- dem befremdenden dative definite includes-article
- den befremdenden dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce befremdend?
- [bəˈfʁɛmdənt]
- [bəˈfʁɛmdn̩t]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is befremdend in German?
befremdend appears about once in every 12 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).