behände
German, adjective/bəˈhɛndə/
behände is spelled B-E-H-Ä-N-D-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written German, the 182,294th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Behände is a German adjective meaning “agile, nimble” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “wendig und flink”.
What does behände mean in English?
adjective
- 1
agile, nimble
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. wendig und flink
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 behände
- behänder masculine nominative singular
- am behändesten superlative
- behändes neuter nominative singular
- behänden genitive masculine singular
- behändem dative masculine singular
- der behände definite includes-article masculine
- die behände definite feminine includes-article
- das behände definite includes-article neuter
- die behänden definite includes-article nominative
- des behänden definite genitive includes-article
- der behänden definite feminine genitive
- dem behänden dative definite includes-article
- den behänden dative definite includes-article
- behende obsolete
- behänd variant
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce behände?
- /bəˈhɛndə/
- [bəˈhɛndə]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to behände
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is behände in German?
behände 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).