bejagen
German, verb
bejagen is spelled B-E-J-A-G-E-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written German, the 235,032nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bejagen is a German verb meaning “to hunt, to hunt after” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Bejagen is a different word: “gerund of bejagen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “hinter etwas hinterher sein, um es zu fangen oder zu töten (jagen)”.
What does bejagen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to hunt, to hunt after
noun
- 1
neutergerund of bejagen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. hinter etwas hinterher sein, um es zu fangen oder zu töten (jagen)
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 bejagen
- bejagt present singular third-person
- bejagte past
- haben auxiliary
- bejagend participle present
- bejage first-person indicative present
- bejagst indicative present second-person
- bejagest second-person singular subjunctive
- bejaget plural second-person subjunctive
- bejagten first-person indicative plural
- bejagtest indicative preterite second-person
- bejagtet indicative plural preterite
- bejag imperative second-person singular
- habe bejagt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben bejagt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- bejag! imperative singular
- bejage! imperative singular
- bejagt! imperative plural
- bejagt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is bejagen in German?
bejagen appears about once in every 17 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).