beheimaten
German, verb
beheimaten is spelled B-E-H-E-I-M-A-T-E-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written German, the 195,050th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Beheimaten is a German verb meaning “to be or become home to someone, something” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Beheimaten is a different word: “gerund of beheimaten”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemandem oder etwas eine Heimat bieten”.
What does beheimaten mean in English?
verb
- 1
to be or become home to someone, something
- 2
to give a person a (new) homeland/home; to make something homelike for someone
Flüchtlinge, Vertriebene beheimaten
- 3
to give an organism a (new) habitat; to re-establish, re-introduce a species
noun
- 1
neutergerund of beheimaten
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. jemandem oder etwas eine Heimat bieten
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 beheimaten
- beheimatet present singular third-person
- beheimatete past
- haben auxiliary
- beheimatend participle present
- beheimate first-person indicative present
- beheimatest indicative present second-person
- beheimateten first-person indicative plural
- beheimatetest indicative preterite second-person
- beheimatetet indicative plural preterite
- beheimat imperative second-person singular
- habe beheimatet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben beheimatet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- beheimat! imperative singular
- beheimate! imperative singular
- beheimatet! imperative plural
- beheimatet haben active infinitive perfect
- beheimatet werden processual-passive infinitive present
- beheimatet worden sein processual-passive infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is beheimaten in German?
beheimaten appears about once in every 13 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).