beschämen
German, verb[bəˈʃɛːmən]
beschämen is spelled B-E-S-C-H-Ä-M-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 85,035th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Beschämen is a German verb meaning “to embarrass; to humiliate; to shame” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Scham in jemandem hervorrufen”.
What does beschämen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to embarrass; to humiliate; to shame
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Scham in jemandem hervorrufen
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 beschämen
- beschämt present singular third-person
- beschämte past
- haben auxiliary
- beschämend participle present
- beschäme first-person indicative present
- beschämst indicative present second-person
- beschämest second-person singular subjunctive
- beschämet plural second-person subjunctive
- beschämten first-person indicative plural
- beschämtest indicative preterite second-person
- beschämtet indicative plural preterite
- beschäm imperative second-person singular
- habe beschämt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben beschämt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- beschäme! imperative singular
- beschämt! imperative plural
- beschämt haben active infinitive perfect
- beschämt werden processual-passive infinitive present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce beschämen?
- [bəˈʃɛːmən]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to beschämen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is beschämen in German?
beschämen appears about once in every 3 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).