beharren
German, verb
beharren is spelled B-E-H-A-R-R-E-N (8 letters) and appears 1.6 times per million words in written German, the 28,576th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Beharren is a German verb meaning “to insist” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Beharren is a different word: “gerund of beharren”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “bezogen auf Meinung, Entschluss: etwas nicht aufgeben, hartnäckig an etwas festhalten, in etwas nicht…”.
What does beharren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to insist
- 2
to persevere, to persist
- 3
rareto persist, to remain
noun
- 1
neutergerund of beharren
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. bezogen auf Meinung, Entschluss: etwas nicht aufgeben, hartnäckig an etwas festhalten, in etwas nicht nachgeben 2. standhaft, fest in etwas bleiben 3. unnachgiebig behaupten, an seiner Meinung festhaltend sagen
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 beharren
- beharrt present singular third-person
- beharrte past
- haben auxiliary
- beharrend participle present
- beharre first-person indicative present
- beharrst indicative present second-person
- beharrest second-person singular subjunctive
- beharret plural second-person subjunctive
- beharrten first-person indicative plural
- beharrtest indicative preterite second-person
- beharrtet indicative plural preterite
- beharr imperative second-person singular
- habe beharrt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben beharrt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- beharre! imperative singular
- beharrt! imperative plural
- beharrt haben active infinitive perfect
- zu beharren active extended infinitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to beharren
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is beharren in German?
beharren appears 1.6 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).