beherbergen
German, verb
beherbergen is spelled B-E-H-E-R-B-E-R-G-E-N (11 letters) and appears 1.8 times per million words in written German, the 25,938th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Beherbergen is a German verb meaning “to shelter, put up, to harbour” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Beherbergen is a different word: “gerund of beherbergen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “eine Unterkunft, Schlafstelle bereitstellen”.
What does beherbergen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to shelter, put up, to harbour
noun
- 1
neutergerund of beherbergen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. eine Unterkunft, Schlafstelle bereitstellen
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 beherbergen
- beherbergt present singular third-person
- beherbergte past
- haben auxiliary
- beherbergend participle present
- beherberge first-person indicative present
- beherbergst indicative present second-person
- beherbergest second-person singular subjunctive
- beherberget plural second-person subjunctive
- beherbergten first-person indicative plural
- beherbergtest indicative preterite second-person
- beherbergtet indicative plural preterite
- beherberg imperative second-person singular
- habe beherbergt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben beherbergt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- beherberg! imperative singular
- beherbergt! imperative plural
- beherbergt haben active infinitive perfect
- beherbergt werden processual-passive infinitive present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to beherbergen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is beherbergen in German?
beherbergen appears 1.8 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).