betonen
German, verb
betonen is spelled B-E-T-O-N-E-N (7 letters) and appears 9.5 times per million words in written German, the 7,292nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Betonen is a German verb meaning “to emphasize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Betonen is a different word: “dative plural of Beton”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “beim Sprechen den Akzent auf eine Silbe legen”.
What does betonen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to emphasize
- 2
to stress
noun
- 1
dative plural of Beton
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. beim Sprechen den Akzent auf eine Silbe legen 2. mit Nachdruck feststellen 3. besonders hervorheben
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 betonen
- betont present singular third-person
- betonte past
- haben auxiliary
- betonend participle present
- betone first-person indicative present
- betonst indicative present second-person
- betonest second-person singular subjunctive
- betonet plural second-person subjunctive
- betonten first-person indicative plural
- betontest indicative preterite second-person
- betontet indicative plural preterite
- beton imperative second-person singular
- habe betont first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben betont first-person indicative multiword-construction
- betone! imperative singular
- betont! imperative plural
- betont haben active infinitive perfect
- betont 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 betonen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is betonen in German?
betonen appears 9.5 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).