Begehr
German, noun
Begehr is spelled B-E-G-E-H-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written German, the 101,039th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Begehr is a German masculine noun meaning “desire, wish” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, begehr is a different word: “singular imperative of begehren”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Verlangen, das Streben nach etwas”.
What does Begehr mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineneuterdesire, wish
verb
- 1
singular imperative of begehren
- 2
colloquialfirst-person singular present of begehren
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Verlangen, das Streben nach etwas
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 Begehr
- Begehrs genitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Begehr in German?
Begehr appears about once in every 4 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).