betten
German, verb
betten is spelled B-E-T-T-E-N (6 letters) and appears 9.5 times per million words in written German, the 7,292nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Betten is a German verb meaning “to bed (place in a bed)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Betten is a different word: “plural of Bett”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemanden sorgsam in oder auf eine weiche Unterlage legen”.
What does betten mean in English?
verb
- 1
to bed (place in a bed)
noun
- 1
plural of Bett
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. jemanden sorgsam in oder auf eine weiche Unterlage legen
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 betten
- bettet present singular third-person
- bettete past
- gebettet participle past
- haben auxiliary
- bettend participle present
- bette first-person indicative present
- bettest indicative present second-person
- betteten first-person indicative plural
- bettetest indicative preterite second-person
- bettetet indicative plural preterite
- bett imperative second-person singular
- habe gebettet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gebettet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- bette! imperative singular
- bettet! imperative plural
- gebettet haben active infinitive perfect
- gebettet werden processual-passive infinitive present
- gebettet worden sein processual-passive infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to betten
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is betten in German?
betten 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).