behauen
German, verb
behauen is spelled B-E-H-A-U-E-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written German, the 140,468th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Behauen is a German verb meaning “to hew, to carve” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Behauen is a different word: “gerund of behauen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “mit einem Werkzeug Teile vom Material abschlagen, um dem Ganzen eine gedachte Form zu geben”.
What does behauen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to hew, to carve
noun
- 1
neutergerund of behauen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. mit einem Werkzeug Teile vom Material abschlagen, um dem Ganzen eine gedachte Form zu geben
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 behauen
- behaut present singular third-person
- behaute past
- haben auxiliary
- behauend participle present
- behaue first-person indicative present
- behaust indicative present second-person
- behauest second-person singular subjunctive
- behauet plural second-person subjunctive
- behauten first-person indicative plural
- behautest indicative preterite second-person
- behautet indicative plural preterite
- behau imperative second-person singular
- habe behauen first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben behauen first-person indicative multiword-construction
- behau! imperative singular
- behaue! imperative singular
- behaut! imperative plural
- behauener positive nominative strong
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to behauen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is behauen in German?
behauen appears about once in every 7 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).