beurkunden
German, verb
beurkunden is spelled B-E-U-R-K-U-N-D-E-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written German, the 161,302nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Beurkunden is a German verb meaning “to certify, register” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Beurkunden is a different word: “gerund of beurkunden”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas amtlich bestätigen, wobei auch ein entsprechendes Dokument (Urkunde) erstellt wird”.
What does beurkunden mean in English?
verb
- 1
to certify, register
noun
- 1
neutergerund of beurkunden
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas amtlich bestätigen, wobei auch ein entsprechendes Dokument (Urkunde) erstellt wird 2. sich zeigen, offenbaren
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 beurkunden
- beurkundet present singular third-person
- beurkundete past
- haben auxiliary
- beurkundend participle present
- beurkunde first-person indicative present
- beurkundest indicative present second-person
- beurkundeten first-person indicative plural
- beurkundetest indicative preterite second-person
- beurkundetet indicative plural preterite
- beurkund imperative second-person singular
- habe beurkundet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben beurkundet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- beurkund! imperative singular
- beurkunde! imperative singular
- beurkundet! imperative plural
- beurkundet haben active infinitive perfect
- beurkundet werden processual-passive infinitive present
- beurkundet worden sein processual-passive infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is beurkunden in German?
beurkunden appears about once in every 9 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).