bestecken
German, verb
bestecken is spelled B-E-S-T-E-C-K-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 27 million words in written German, the 301,457th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bestecken is a German verb meaning “to decorate by sticking materials into something (e.g., flowers on a wreath)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Bestecken is a different word: “dative plural of Besteck”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Gegenstände (als Schmuck) auf etwas befestigen”.
What does bestecken mean in English?
verb
- 1
obsoleteto get stuck
- 2
to decorate by sticking materials into something (e.g., flowers on a wreath)
noun
- 1
neuterdative plural of Besteck
noun
- 1
neutergerund of bestecken
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Gegenstände (als Schmuck) auf etwas befestigen
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 bestecken
- besteckt present singular third-person
- besteckte past
- haben auxiliary
- besteckend participle present
- bestecke first-person indicative present
- besteckst indicative present second-person
- besteckest second-person singular subjunctive
- bestecket plural second-person subjunctive
- besteckten first-person indicative plural
- bestecktest indicative preterite second-person
- bestecktet indicative plural preterite
- besteck imperative second-person singular
- habe besteckt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben besteckt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- besteck! imperative singular
- bestecke! imperative singular
- besteckt! imperative plural
- besteckt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is bestecken in German?
bestecken appears about once in every 27 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).