bekränzen
German, verb
bekränzen is spelled B-E-K-R-Ä-N-Z-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 47 million words in written German, the 412,295th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bekränzen is a German verb meaning “to wreath, to garland” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Bekränzen is a different word: “gerund of bekränzen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemandem eine geflochtene Girlande (Kranz) auf den Kopf setzen, dies zum Beispiel um zu schmücken oder um den…”.
What does bekränzen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to wreath, to garland
noun
- 1
neutergerund of bekränzen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. jemandem eine geflochtene Girlande (Kranz) auf den Kopf setzen, dies zum Beispiel um zu schmücken oder um den Sieger oder Poeten zu ehren
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 bekränzen
- bekränzt present singular third-person
- bekränzte past
- haben auxiliary
- bekränzend participle present
- bekränze first-person indicative present
- bekränzest second-person singular subjunctive
- bekränzet plural second-person subjunctive
- bekränzten first-person indicative plural
- bekränztest indicative preterite second-person
- bekränztet indicative plural preterite
- bekränz imperative second-person singular
- habe bekränzt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben bekränzt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- bekränz! imperative singular
- bekränze! imperative singular
- bekränzt! imperative plural
- bekränzt haben active infinitive perfect
- bekränzt werden processual-passive infinitive present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is bekränzen in German?
bekränzen appears about once in every 47 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).