beschleunigen
German, verb
beschleunigen is spelled B-E-S-C-H-L-E-U-N-I-G-E-N (13 letters) and appears 6.2 times per million words in written German, the 10,439th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Beschleunigen is a German verb meaning “to accelerate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Beschleunigen is a different word: “gerund of beschleunigen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “die Geschwindigkeit erhöhen, schneller werden lassen; schneller werden; ein bestimmtes…”.
What does beschleunigen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to accelerate
den Fortschritt beschleunigen.
noun
- 1
neutergerund of beschleunigen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. die Geschwindigkeit erhöhen, schneller werden lassen; schneller werden; ein bestimmtes Beschleunigungsvermögen haben 2. dafür sorgen, dass etwas früher geschieht, schneller vonstattengeht
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 beschleunigen
- beschleunigt present singular third-person
- beschleunigte past
- haben auxiliary
- beschleunigend participle present
- beschleunige first-person indicative present
- beschleunigst indicative present second-person
- beschleunigest second-person singular subjunctive
- beschleuniget plural second-person subjunctive
- beschleunigten first-person indicative plural
- beschleunigtest indicative preterite second-person
- beschleunigtet indicative plural preterite
- beschleunig imperative second-person singular
- habe beschleunigt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben beschleunigt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- beschleunig! imperative singular
- beschleunige! imperative singular
- beschleunigt! imperative plural
- beschleunigt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to beschleunigen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is beschleunigen in German?
beschleunigen appears 6.2 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).