beschmutzen
German, verb
beschmutzen is spelled B-E-S-C-H-M-U-T-Z-E-N (11 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 75,468th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Beschmutzen is a German verb meaning “to make dirty, stain (also figurative)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Beschmutzen is a different word: “gerund of beschmutzen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “schmutzig machen, dreckig machen, mit Schmutz versehen”.
What does beschmutzen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to make dirty, stain (also figurative)
noun
- 1
neutergerund of beschmutzen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. schmutzig machen, dreckig machen, mit Schmutz versehen 2. den Ruf oder die Ehre schmälern, herabsetzen
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 beschmutzen
- beschmutzt present singular third-person
- beschmutzte past
- haben auxiliary
- beschmutzend participle present
- beschmutze first-person indicative present
- beschmutzest second-person singular subjunctive
- beschmutzet plural second-person subjunctive
- beschmutzten first-person indicative plural
- beschmutztest indicative preterite second-person
- beschmutztet indicative plural preterite
- beschmutz imperative second-person singular
- habe beschmutzt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben beschmutzt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- beschmutze! imperative singular
- beschmutz! imperative singular
- beschmutzt! imperative plural
- beschmutzt haben active infinitive perfect
- beschmutzt werden processual-passive infinitive present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to beschmutzen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is beschmutzen in German?
beschmutzen 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).