beschauen
German, verb
beschauen is spelled B-E-S-C-H-A-U-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written German, the 232,034th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Beschauen is a German verb meaning “to inspect, to look at” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Beschauen is a different word: “gerund of beschauen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “kontrollierend betrachten”.
What does beschauen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to inspect, to look at
noun
- 1
neutergerund of beschauen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. kontrollierend betrachten
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 beschauen
- beschaut present singular third-person
- beschaute past
- haben auxiliary
- beschauend participle present
- beschaue first-person indicative present
- beschaust indicative present second-person
- beschauest second-person singular subjunctive
- beschauet plural second-person subjunctive
- beschauten first-person indicative plural
- beschautest indicative preterite second-person
- beschautet indicative plural preterite
- beschau imperative second-person singular
- habe beschaut first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben beschaut first-person indicative multiword-construction
- beschaue! imperative singular
- beschau! imperative singular
- beschaut! imperative plural
- beschaut haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is beschauen in German?
beschauen appears about once in every 17 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).