besorgt
German, adjective/bəˈzɔʁkt/
besorgt is spelled B-E-S-O-R-G-T (7 letters) and appears 18 times per million words in written German, the 4,345th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Besorgt is a German adjective meaning “worried (thinking about unpleasant things that have happened or that might happen)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of besorgen. The German Wiktionary defines it as “um Hilfe und Unterstützung bemüht, voller Sorge”.
What does besorgt mean in English?
adjective
- 1
worried (thinking about unpleasant things that have happened or that might happen)
verb
- 1
past participle of besorgen
verb
- 1
third-person singular present
- 2
second-person plural present
- 3
plural imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. um Hilfe und Unterstützung bemüht, voller Sorge
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 besorgt
- besorgter masculine nominative singular
- am besorgtesten superlative
- besorgte feminine nominative singular
- besorgtes neuter nominative singular
- besorgten genitive masculine singular
- besorgtem dative masculine singular
- der besorgte definite includes-article masculine
- die besorgte definite feminine includes-article
- das besorgte definite includes-article neuter
- die besorgten definite includes-article nominative
- des besorgten definite genitive includes-article
- der besorgten definite feminine genitive
- dem besorgten dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce besorgt?
- /bəˈzɔʁkt/
- [bəˈzɔʁkt]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to besorgt
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is besorgt in German?
besorgt appears 18 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).