beschirmen
German, verb/bəʃɪʁmɘn/
beschirmen is spelled B-E-S-C-H-I-R-M-E-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 33 million words in written German, the 339,062nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Beschirmen is a German verb meaning “to protect, to shield” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemanden (oder auch etwas) schützen”.
What does beschirmen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to protect, to shield
- 2
to stretch out forming a screen
- 3
to put on a lampshade
- 4
to guard, to look after, to sentinel
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. jemanden (oder auch etwas) schützen 2. als Schutz über etwas sein, die Augen vor Sonnenstrahlen und Wind schützen, indem etwas, zum Beispiel eine Hand, davor gehalten wird 3. eine Lichtquelle (Lampe) mit einer Hülle (Lampenschirm) versehen
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 beschirmen
- beschirmt present singular third-person
- beschirmte past
- haben auxiliary
- beschirmend participle present
- beschirme first-person indicative present
- beschirmst indicative present second-person
- beschirmest second-person singular subjunctive
- beschirmet plural second-person subjunctive
- beschirmten first-person indicative plural
- beschirmtest indicative preterite second-person
- beschirmtet indicative plural preterite
- beschirm imperative second-person singular
- habe beschirmt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben beschirmt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- beschirm! imperative singular
- beschirme! imperative singular
- beschirmt! imperative plural
- beschirmt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce beschirmen?
- /bəʃɪʁmɘn/
- /bəʃɪʁmn̩/
- [bəˈʃɪʁmən]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to beschirmen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is beschirmen in German?
beschirmen appears about once in every 33 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).