befreunden
German, verb
befreunden is spelled B-E-F-R-E-U-N-D-E-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written German, the 179,801st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Befreunden is a German verb meaning “to befriend, to become friends with, to make friends with” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Befreunden is a different word: “gerund of befreunden”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “sich mit jemandem anfreunden, zu jemandem Freund werden”.
What does befreunden mean in English?
verb
- 1
to befriend, to become friends with, to make friends with
noun
- 1
neutergerund of befreunden
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. sich mit jemandem anfreunden, zu jemandem Freund werden 2. etwas zunehmend positiv einschätzen
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 befreunden
- befreundet present singular third-person
- befreundete past
- haben auxiliary
- befreundend participle present
- befreunde first-person indicative present
- befreundest indicative present second-person
- befreundeten first-person indicative plural
- befreundetest indicative preterite second-person
- befreundetet indicative plural preterite
- befreund imperative second-person singular
- habe befreundet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben befreundet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- befreund! imperative singular
- befreunde! imperative singular
- befreundet! imperative plural
- sich befreunden active present
- sich befreundet haben active perfect
- befreundet sein statal-reflexive present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is befreunden in German?
befreunden appears about once in every 11 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).