besehen
German, verb/bəˈzeːən/
besehen is spelled B-E-S-E-H-E-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written German, the 98,214th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Besehen is a German verb meaning “to look at, to examine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “genau, von allen Seiten ansehen”.
What does besehen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to look at, to examine
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. genau, von allen Seiten ansehen
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 besehen
- besieht present singular third-person
- besah past
- besähe past subjunctive
- haben auxiliary
- 5 strong
- besehend participle present
- besehe first-person indicative present
- besiehst indicative present second-person
- beseht indicative plural present
- besehest second-person singular subjunctive
- besehet plural second-person subjunctive
- besahen first-person indicative plural
- besähen first-person formal plural
- besahst indicative preterite second-person
- besaht indicative plural preterite
- besähest formal rare second-person
- besähst formal rare second-person
- besähet formal plural rare
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce besehen?
- /bəˈzeːən/
- [bəˈzeːən]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is besehen in German?
besehen appears about once in every 4 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).