beleben
German, verb[bəˈleːbn̩]
beleben is spelled B-E-L-E-B-E-N (7 letters) and appears 2.5 times per million words in written German, the 20,546th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Beleben is a German verb meaning “to liven up” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemand oder etwas zum Leben erwecken”.
What does beleben mean in English?
verb
- 1
to liven up
- 2
to animate
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. jemand oder etwas zum Leben erwecken 2. Schwung in etwas bringen, anregen
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 beleben
- belebt present singular third-person
- belebte past
- haben auxiliary
- belebend participle present
- belebe first-person indicative present
- belebst indicative present second-person
- belebest second-person singular subjunctive
- belebet plural second-person subjunctive
- belebten first-person indicative plural
- belebtest indicative preterite second-person
- belebtet indicative plural preterite
- beleb imperative second-person singular
- habe belebt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben belebt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- belebe! imperative singular
- belebt! imperative plural
- belebt haben active infinitive perfect
- belebt werden processual-passive infinitive present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce beleben?
- [bəˈleːbn̩]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to beleben
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is beleben in German?
beleben appears 2.5 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).