Beschlagnahme
German, noun
Beschlagnahme is spelled B-E-S-C-H-L-A-G-N-A-H-M-E (13 letters) and appears 1.0 times per million words in written German, the 38,034th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Beschlagnahme is a German feminine noun meaning “verbal noun of in Beschlag nehmen, seizure” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, beschlagnahme is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Entzug von Besitztum aufgrund amtlicher Anweisung”.
What does Beschlagnahme mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineverbal noun of in Beschlag nehmen, seizure
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- 3
singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Entzug von Besitztum aufgrund amtlicher Anweisung
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 Beschlagnahme
- Beschlagnahmen plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Beschlagnahme
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Beschlagnahme in German?
Beschlagnahme appears 1.0 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).