befugt
German, adjective[bəˈfuːkt]
befugt is spelled B-E-F-U-G-T (6 letters) and appears 1.9 times per million words in written German, the 25,090th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Befugt is a German adjective meaning “authorized” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of befugen. The German Wiktionary defines it as “die Befugnis, das Recht, die Bevollmächtigung zu etwas besitzend”.
What does befugt mean in English?
adjective
- 1
authorized
verb
- 1
past participle of befugen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. die Befugnis, das Recht, die Bevollmächtigung zu etwas besitzend
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 befugt
- befugter masculine nominative singular
- befugte feminine nominative singular
- befugtes neuter nominative singular
- befugten genitive masculine singular
- befugtem dative masculine singular
- der befugte definite includes-article masculine
- die befugte definite feminine includes-article
- das befugte definite includes-article neuter
- die befugten definite includes-article nominative
- des befugten definite genitive includes-article
- der befugten definite feminine genitive
- dem befugten dative definite includes-article
- den befugten dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce befugt?
- [bəˈfuːkt]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to befugt
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is befugt in German?
befugt appears 1.9 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).