bekümmern
German, verb/bəˈkʏmɐn/
bekümmern is spelled B-E-K-Ü-M-M-E-R-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written German, the 195,050th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bekümmern is a German verb meaning “to trouble” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Unruhe und Sorge (Kummer) bereiten”.
What does bekümmern mean in English?
verb
- 1
to trouble
Was bekümmert dich?
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Unruhe und Sorge (Kummer) bereiten 2. sich um etwas oder jemanden oder für jemanden sorgen (kümmern)
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 bekümmern
- bekümmert present singular third-person
- bekümmerte past
- haben auxiliary
- bekümmernd participle present
- bekümmre first-person indicative present
- bekümmere first-person indicative present
- bekümmer first-person indicative present
- bekümmerst indicative present second-person
- bekümmerest second-person singular subjunctive
- bekümmrest second-person singular subjunctive
- bekümmeret plural second-person subjunctive
- bekümmret plural second-person subjunctive
- bekümmerten first-person indicative plural
- bekümmertest indicative preterite second-person
- bekümmertet indicative plural preterite
- bekümmer! imperative singular
- bekümmere! imperative singular
- bekümmert! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bekümmern?
- /bəˈkʏmɐn/
- [bəˈkʏmɐn]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bekümmern
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bekümmern in German?
bekümmern 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).