beschönigen
German, verb
beschönigen is spelled B-E-S-C-H-Ö-N-I-G-E-N (11 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 52,749th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Beschönigen is a German verb meaning “to whitewash” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Beschönigen is a different word: “gerund of beschönigen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas als besser, schöner darstellen, als es in Wirklichkeit ist”.
What does beschönigen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to whitewash
noun
- 1
neutergerund of beschönigen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas als besser, schöner darstellen, als es in Wirklichkeit ist
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 beschönigen
- beschönigt present singular third-person
- beschönigte past
- haben auxiliary
- beschönigend participle present
- beschönige first-person indicative present
- beschönigst indicative present second-person
- beschönigest second-person singular subjunctive
- beschöniget plural second-person subjunctive
- beschönigten first-person indicative plural
- beschönigtest indicative preterite second-person
- beschönigtet indicative plural preterite
- beschönig imperative second-person singular
- habe beschönigt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben beschönigt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- beschönige! imperative singular
- beschönigt! imperative plural
- beschönigt haben active infinitive perfect
- beschönigt 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 beschönigen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is beschönigen in German?
beschönigen appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).