beglaubigen
German, verb
beglaubigen is spelled B-E-G-L-A-U-B-I-G-E-N (11 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written German, the 102,515th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Beglaubigen is a German verb meaning “to authenticate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Beglaubigen is a different word: “gerund of beglaubigen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “die Echtheit bestätigen”.
What does beglaubigen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to authenticate
- 2
to accredit
noun
- 1
neutergerund of beglaubigen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. die Echtheit bestätigen 2. in seiner Funktion anerkennen
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 beglaubigen
- beglaubigt present singular third-person
- beglaubigte past
- haben auxiliary
- beglaubigend participle present
- beglaubige first-person indicative present
- beglaubigst indicative present second-person
- beglaubigest second-person singular subjunctive
- beglaubiget plural second-person subjunctive
- beglaubigten first-person indicative plural
- beglaubigtest indicative preterite second-person
- beglaubigtet indicative plural preterite
- beglaubig imperative second-person singular
- habe beglaubigt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben beglaubigt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- beglaubig! imperative singular
- beglaubige! imperative singular
- beglaubigt! imperative plural
- beglaubigt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to beglaubigen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is beglaubigen in German?
beglaubigen 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).