beruhigen
German, verb
beruhigen is spelled B-E-R-U-H-I-G-E-N (9 letters) and appears 8.7 times per million words in written German, the 7,885th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Beruhigen is a German verb meaning “to calm down, to quiet” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Beruhigen is a different word: “gerund of beruhigen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “zur Ruhe bringen; ruhig machen”.
What does beruhigen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to calm down, to quiet
Wut beruhigen.
- 2
to become calm
noun
- 1
neutergerund of beruhigen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. zur Ruhe bringen; ruhig machen 2. beschwichtigen, die Sorge nehmen 3. sich emotional wieder normalisieren (nach großer Aufregung oder Wut) 4. wieder zum Normalzustand zurückkehren
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 beruhigen
- beruhigt present singular third-person
- beruhigte past
- haben auxiliary
- beruhigend participle present
- beruhige first-person indicative present
- beruhigst indicative present second-person
- beruhigest second-person singular subjunctive
- beruhiget plural second-person subjunctive
- beruhigten first-person indicative plural
- beruhigtest indicative preterite second-person
- beruhigtet indicative plural preterite
- beruhig imperative second-person singular
- habe beruhigt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben beruhigt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- beruhige! imperative singular
- beruhigt! imperative plural
- beruhigt haben active infinitive perfect
- beruhigt 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 beruhigen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is beruhigen in German?
beruhigen appears 8.7 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).