behängen
German, verb
behängen is spelled B-E-H-Ä-N-G-E-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 16 million words in written German, the 222,832nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Behängen is a German verb meaning “to hang, to drape [with accusative ‘someone/something, e.g. a wall’ and mit (+ dative) ‘with something else’]” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Behängen is a different word: “gerund of behängen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “(Weihnachtsbäume) mit Hängedekorationen schmücken”.
What does behängen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to hang, to drape [with accusative ‘someone/something, e.g. a wall’ and mit (+ dative) ‘with something else’]
Sie haben die Wand mit riesigen Wandteppichen behängt.
- 2
to be hung, draped [with mit (+ dative) ‘with something’]
Die Wand ist mit riesigen Wandteppichen behangen/behängt.
noun
- 1
neutergerund of behängen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. (Weihnachtsbäume) mit Hängedekorationen schmücken 2. übermäßig, auffällig schmücken 3. (Jagdhunde) abrichten 4. sich auf jemanden einlassen
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 behängen
- behängt present singular third-person
- behängte past
- behangen participle past
- haben auxiliary
- sein auxiliary
- haben or sein auxiliary
- behängend participle present
- behänge first-person indicative present
- behängst indicative present second-person
- behängest second-person singular subjunctive
- behänget plural second-person subjunctive
- behängten first-person indicative plural
- behängtest indicative preterite second-person
- behängtet indicative plural preterite
- behäng imperative second-person singular
- behäng! imperative singular
- behänge! imperative singular
- behängt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is behängen in German?
behängen appears about once in every 16 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).