beseitigen
German, verb
beseitigen is spelled B-E-S-E-I-T-I-G-E-N (10 letters) and appears 9.8 times per million words in written German, the 7,170th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Beseitigen is a German verb meaning “to dispose of (get rid of something), remove, eliminate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Beseitigen is a different word: “gerund of beseitigen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas beiseite schaffen; etwas entfernen”.
What does beseitigen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to dispose of (get rid of something), remove, eliminate
Hindernisse beseitigen.
- 2
slangto eliminate (kill)
noun
- 1
neutergerund of beseitigen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas beiseite schaffen; etwas entfernen 2. jemanden töten
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 beseitigen
- beseitigt present singular third-person
- beseitigte past
- haben auxiliary
- beseitigend participle present
- beseitige first-person indicative present
- beseitigst indicative present second-person
- beseitigest second-person singular subjunctive
- beseitiget plural second-person subjunctive
- beseitigten first-person indicative plural
- beseitigtest indicative preterite second-person
- beseitigtet indicative plural preterite
- beseitig imperative second-person singular
- habe beseitigt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben beseitigt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- beseitige! imperative singular
- beseitigt! imperative plural
- beseitigt haben active infinitive perfect
- beseitigt 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 beseitigen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is beseitigen in German?
beseitigen appears 9.8 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).