belangen
German, verb
belangen is spelled B-E-L-A-N-G-E-N (8 letters) and appears 3.1 times per million words in written German, the 17,543rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Belangen is a German verb meaning “to concern, to touch a matter” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Belangen is a different word: “dative plural of Belang”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “zur Rechenschaft ziehen”.
What does belangen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to concern, to touch a matter
- 2
to prosecute, to take recourse to
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Belang
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. zur Rechenschaft ziehen 2. heute nur in einigen oberdeutschen Dialekten, meistens als [bəˈlaŋə]/[bˈlaŋə]/[pˈlaŋə]: mit Sehnsucht warten. Vergleiche: „es verlangt mich“
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 belangen
- belangt present singular third-person
- belangte past
- haben auxiliary
- belangend participle present
- belange first-person indicative present
- belangst indicative present second-person
- belangest second-person singular subjunctive
- belanget plural second-person subjunctive
- belangten first-person indicative plural
- belangtest indicative preterite second-person
- belangtet indicative plural preterite
- belang imperative second-person singular
- habe belangt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben belangt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- belange! imperative singular
- belangt! imperative plural
- belangt haben active infinitive perfect
- belangt 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 belangen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is belangen in German?
belangen appears 3.1 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).