begaben
German, verb
begaben is spelled B-E-G-A-B-E-N (7 letters) and appears 1.4 times per million words in written German, the 30,977th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Begaben is a German verb meaning “to endow” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person plural preterite of begeben. With an umlaut, begäben is a different word: “first/third-person plural subjunctive II of begeben”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “mit einer Eigenschaft (Gabe) ausstatten”.
What does begaben mean in English?
verb
- 1
to endow
verb
- 1
first/third-person plural preterite of begeben
verb
- 1
first/third-person plural subjunctive II of begeben
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. mit einer Eigenschaft (Gabe) ausstatten
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 begaben
- begabt present singular third-person
- begabte past
- haben auxiliary
- begabend participle present
- begabe first-person indicative present
- begabst indicative present second-person
- begabest second-person singular subjunctive
- begabet plural second-person subjunctive
- begabten first-person indicative plural
- begabtest indicative preterite second-person
- begabtet indicative plural preterite
- begab imperative second-person singular
- habe begabt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben begabt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- begab! imperative singular
- begabe! imperative singular
- begabt! imperative plural
- begabt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is begaben in German?
begaben appears 1.4 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).