bekehren
German, verb
bekehren is spelled B-E-K-E-H-R-E-N (8 letters) and appears 1.4 times per million words in written German, the 31,493rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bekehren is a German verb meaning “to convert” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Bekehren is a different word: “gerund of bekehren”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemanden von seinen bisherigen Ansichten abbringen und von den eigenen überzeugen”.
What does bekehren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to convert
noun
- 1
neutergerund of bekehren
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. jemanden von seinen bisherigen Ansichten abbringen und von den eigenen überzeugen
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 bekehren
- bekehrt present singular third-person
- bekehrte past
- haben auxiliary
- bekehrend participle present
- bekehre first-person indicative present
- bekehrst indicative present second-person
- bekehrest second-person singular subjunctive
- bekehret plural second-person subjunctive
- bekehrten first-person indicative plural
- bekehrtest indicative preterite second-person
- bekehrtet indicative plural preterite
- bekehr imperative second-person singular
- habe bekehrt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben bekehrt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- bekehre! imperative singular
- bekehrt! imperative plural
- bekehrt haben active infinitive perfect
- bekehrt 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 bekehren
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bekehren in German?
bekehren appears 1.4 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).