bekräftigen
German, verb
bekräftigen is spelled B-E-K-R-Ä-F-T-I-G-E-N (11 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 43,091st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bekräftigen is a German verb meaning “to confirm, corroborate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Bekräftigen is a different word: “gerund of bekräftigen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas mit Nachdruck bestätigen”.
What does bekräftigen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to confirm, corroborate
noun
- 1
neutergerund of bekräftigen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas mit Nachdruck bestätigen
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 bekräftigen
- bekräftigt present singular third-person
- bekräftigte past
- haben auxiliary
- bekräftigend participle present
- bekräftige first-person indicative present
- bekräftigst indicative present second-person
- bekräftigest second-person singular subjunctive
- bekräftiget plural second-person subjunctive
- bekräftigten first-person indicative plural
- bekräftigtest indicative preterite second-person
- bekräftigtet indicative plural preterite
- bekräftig imperative second-person singular
- habe bekräftigt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben bekräftigt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- bekräftige! imperative singular
- bekräftigt! imperative plural
- bekräftigt haben active infinitive perfect
- bekräftigt 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 bekräftigen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bekräftigen in German?
bekräftigen 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).