beugen
German, verb
beugen is spelled B-E-U-G-E-N (6 letters) and appears 4.0 times per million words in written German, the 14,528th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Beugen is a German verb meaning “to bend something, to bow something” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Beugen is a different word: “gerund of beugen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “biegen, krümmen”.
What does beugen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to bend something, to bow something
das Knie beugen
- 2
to bend; to bend over; to bow
Er beugt sich, um durch die Luke zu passen.
- 3
to give in to; to cease to resist or disagree with
Er musste sich der Mehrheit beugen.
- 4
to inflect; to decline, conjugate, etc.
Fast alle deutschen Maskulina auf -e werden schwach gebeugt.
noun
- 1
neutergerund of beugen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. biegen, krümmen 2. sich unterwerfen 3. Gesetz oder Recht vorsätzlich entgegen der ursprünglichen Absicht anwenden, verdrehen 4. (ein Wort) abwandeln
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 beugen
- beugt present singular third-person
- beugte past
- gebeugt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- beugend participle present
- beuge first-person indicative present
- beugst indicative present second-person
- beugest second-person singular subjunctive
- beuget plural second-person subjunctive
- beugten first-person indicative plural
- beugtest indicative preterite second-person
- beugtet indicative plural preterite
- beug imperative second-person singular
- habe gebeugt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gebeugt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- beuge! imperative singular
- beugt! imperative plural
- beuget! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to beugen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is beugen in German?
beugen appears 4.0 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).