bestrahlen
German, verb[bəˈʃtʁaːlən]
bestrahlen is spelled B-E-S-T-R-A-H-L-E-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written German, the 129,075th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bestrahlen is a German verb meaning “to irradiate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “besonderen Wellen (Strahlen) aussetzen, dem Sonnenlicht oder Licht aus Lichtquellen”.
What does bestrahlen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to irradiate
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. besonderen Wellen (Strahlen) aussetzen, dem Sonnenlicht oder Licht aus Lichtquellen 2. besonderen Wellen, oftmals radioaktiven Strahlen, aussetzen
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 bestrahlen
- bestrahlt present singular third-person
- bestrahlte past
- haben auxiliary
- bestrahlend participle present
- bestrahle first-person indicative present
- bestrahlst indicative present second-person
- bestrahlest second-person singular subjunctive
- bestrahlet plural second-person subjunctive
- bestrahlten first-person indicative plural
- bestrahltest indicative preterite second-person
- bestrahltet indicative plural preterite
- bestrahl imperative second-person singular
- habe bestrahlt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben bestrahlt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- bestrahl! imperative singular
- bestrahle! imperative singular
- bestrahlt! imperative plural
- bestrahlt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bestrahlen?
- [bəˈʃtʁaːlən]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bestrahlen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bestrahlen in German?
bestrahlen appears about once in every 6 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).