bekämpfen
German, verb
bekämpfen is spelled B-E-K-Ä-M-P-F-E-N (9 letters) and appears 15 times per million words in written German, the 5,079th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bekämpfen is a German verb meaning “to fight (against something), to combat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Bekämpfen is a different word: “gerund of bekämpfen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “gegen etwas ankämpfen”.
What does bekämpfen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to fight (against something), to combat
noun
- 1
neutergerund of bekämpfen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. gegen etwas ankämpfen 2. gegeneinander kämpfen
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 bekämpfen
- bekämpft present singular third-person
- bekämpfte past
- haben auxiliary
- bekämpfend participle present
- bekämpfe first-person indicative present
- bekämpfst indicative present second-person
- bekämpfest second-person singular subjunctive
- bekämpfet plural second-person subjunctive
- bekämpften first-person indicative plural
- bekämpftest indicative preterite second-person
- bekämpftet indicative plural preterite
- bekämpf imperative second-person singular
- habe bekämpft first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben bekämpft first-person indicative multiword-construction
- bekämpf! imperative singular
- bekämpfe! imperative singular
- bekämpft! imperative plural
- bekämpft haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to bekämpfen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bekämpfen in German?
bekämpfen appears 15 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).