betrauern
German, verb
betrauern is spelled B-E-T-R-A-U-E-R-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written German, the 90,067th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Betrauern is a German verb meaning “to bemourn, to bewail” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Betrauern is a different word: “gerund of betrauern”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Traurigkeit über den Verlust einer Person oder auch Sache (Trauer) zeigen”.
What does betrauern mean in English?
verb
- 1
to bemourn, to bewail
noun
- 1
neutergerund of betrauern
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Traurigkeit über den Verlust einer Person oder auch Sache (Trauer) zeigen
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 betrauern
- betrauert present singular third-person
- betrauerte past
- haben auxiliary
- betrauernd participle present
- betraure first-person indicative present
- betrauere first-person indicative present
- betrauer first-person indicative present
- betrauerst indicative present second-person
- betrauerest second-person singular subjunctive
- betraurest second-person singular subjunctive
- betraueret plural second-person subjunctive
- betrauret plural second-person subjunctive
- betrauerten first-person indicative plural
- betrauertest indicative preterite second-person
- betrauertet indicative plural preterite
- betrauer! imperative singular
- betrauere! imperative singular
- betrauert! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to betrauern
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is betrauern in German?
betrauern appears about once in every 4 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).