besoffen
German, adjective/bəˈzɔfən/
besoffen is spelled B-E-S-O-F-F-E-N (8 letters) and appears 5.4 times per million words in written German, the 11,619th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Besoffen is a German adjective meaning “drunk” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person plural preterite of besaufen. The German Wiktionary defines it as “zu viel Alkohol getrunken habend”.
What does besoffen mean in English?
adjective
- 1
informaldrunk
- 2
made with alcohol
besoffenes Huhn
verb
- 1
first/third-person plural preterite of besaufen
verb
- 1
past participle of besaufen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. zu viel Alkohol getrunken habend
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 besoffen
- besoffener masculine nominative singular
- besoffner comparative
- am besoffensten superlative
- besoffene feminine nominative singular
- besoffenes neuter nominative singular
- besoffenen genitive masculine singular
- besoffenem dative masculine singular
- der besoffene definite includes-article masculine
- die besoffene definite feminine includes-article
- das besoffene definite includes-article neuter
- die besoffenen definite includes-article nominative
- des besoffenen definite genitive includes-article
- der besoffenen definite feminine genitive
- dem besoffenen dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce besoffen?
- /bəˈzɔfən/
- [bəˈzɔfn̩]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to besoffen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is besoffen in German?
besoffen appears 5.4 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).