bejahen
German, verb
bejahen is spelled B-E-J-A-H-E-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 45,845th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bejahen is a German verb meaning “to affirm, approve, answer something in the affirmative” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Bejahen is a different word: “gerund of bejahen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “seine Zustimmung geben; ja sagen”.
What does bejahen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to affirm, approve, answer something in the affirmative
noun
- 1
neutergerund of bejahen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. seine Zustimmung geben; ja sagen
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 bejahen
- bejaht present singular third-person
- bejahte past
- haben auxiliary
- bejahend participle present
- bejahe first-person indicative present
- bejahst indicative present second-person
- bejahest second-person singular subjunctive
- bejahet plural second-person subjunctive
- bejahten first-person indicative plural
- bejahtest indicative preterite second-person
- bejahtet indicative plural preterite
- bejah imperative second-person singular
- habe bejaht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben bejaht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- bejahe! imperative singular
- bejah! imperative singular
- bejaht! imperative plural
- bejaht haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to bejahen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bejahen in German?
bejahen appears about once in every 1 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).