bekreuzigen
German, verb
bekreuzigen is spelled B-E-K-R-E-U-Z-I-G-E-N (11 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written German, the 202,985th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bekreuzigen is a German verb meaning “to cross oneself” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Bekreuzigen is a different word: “gerund of bekreuzigen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “mit einer Hand die Geste des Kreuzzeichens vor jemandes Stirn, Brust und Schultern als Zeichen der Segnung…”.
What does bekreuzigen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cross oneself
- 2
rareto becross, to make the sign of the cross over someone or something
noun
- 1
neutergerund of bekreuzigen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. mit einer Hand die Geste des Kreuzzeichens vor jemandes Stirn, Brust und Schultern als Zeichen der Segnung ausführen
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 bekreuzigen
- bekreuzigt present singular third-person
- bekreuzigte past
- haben auxiliary
- bekreuzigend participle present
- bekreuzige first-person indicative present
- bekreuzigst indicative present second-person
- bekreuzigest second-person singular subjunctive
- bekreuziget plural second-person subjunctive
- bekreuzigten first-person indicative plural
- bekreuzigtest indicative preterite second-person
- bekreuzigtet indicative plural preterite
- bekreuzig imperative second-person singular
- habe bekreuzigt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben bekreuzigt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- bekreuzig! imperative singular
- bekreuzige! imperative singular
- bekreuzigt! imperative plural
- bekreuzigt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is bekreuzigen in German?
bekreuzigen appears about once in every 13 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).