beleidigen
German, verb[bəˈlaɪ̯dɪɡn̩]
beleidigen is spelled B-E-L-E-I-D-I-G-E-N (10 letters) and appears 7.9 times per million words in written German, the 8,529th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Beleidigen is a German verb meaning “to offend, to insult, to annoy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemanden in seiner Ehre oder Würde durch Worte oder Taten verletzen”.
What does beleidigen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to offend, to insult, to annoy
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. jemanden in seiner Ehre oder Würde durch Worte oder Taten verletzen 2. den Tatbestand der Beleidigung^([3]) verwirklichen 3. auf etwas (insbesondere Sinnesorgane) dadurch einwirken, dass sie als negativ zu klassifizierenden Eindrücken ausgesetzt werden
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 beleidigen
- beleidigt present singular third-person
- beleidigte past
- haben auxiliary
- beleidigend participle present
- beleidige first-person indicative present
- beleidigst indicative present second-person
- beleidigest second-person singular subjunctive
- beleidiget plural second-person subjunctive
- beleidigten first-person indicative plural
- beleidigtest indicative preterite second-person
- beleidigtet indicative plural preterite
- beleidig imperative second-person singular
- habe beleidigt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben beleidigt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- beleidige! imperative singular
- beleidigt! imperative plural
- beleidigt haben active infinitive perfect
- beleidigt werden processual-passive infinitive present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce beleidigen?
- [bəˈlaɪ̯dɪɡn̩]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to beleidigen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is beleidigen in German?
beleidigen appears 7.9 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).