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beinhalten

German, verb

beinhalten is spelled B-E-I-N-H-A-L-T-E-N (10 letters) and appears 5.2 times per million words in written German, the 11,837th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Beinhalten is a German verb meaning “to comprise, to contain, to include, to involve” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Beinhalten is a different word: “gerund of beinhalten”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “zum Inhalt haben, enthalten, umfassen”.

What does beinhalten mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to comprise, to contain, to include, to involve

    Das Gesetz beinhaltet auch folgenden Absatz.

  2. 2

    to comprise, to entail

  3. 3

    to imply, to implicate

noun

as Beinhalten
  1. 1

    neutergerund of beinhalten

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

verb: 1. zum Inhalt haben, enthalten, umfassen 2. als Voraussetzung haben 3. zur Folge haben

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 beinhalten

  • beinhaltet present singular third-person
  • beinhaltete past
  • haben auxiliary
  • beinhaltend participle present
  • beinhalte first-person indicative present
  • beinhaltest indicative present second-person
  • beinhalteten first-person indicative plural
  • beinhaltetest indicative preterite second-person
  • beinhaltetet indicative plural preterite
  • beinhalt imperative second-person singular
  • habe beinhaltet first-person indicative multiword-construction
  • haben beinhaltet first-person indicative multiword-construction
  • beinhaltet haben active infinitive perfect
  • zu beinhalten active extended infinitive
  • beinhaltet zu haben active extended infinitive
  • zu beinhaltender participle gerundive
  • zu beinhaltende participle gerundive
  • zu beinhaltendes … participle gerundive

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to beinhalten

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is beinhalten in German?

beinhalten appears 5.2 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).

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