beurteilen
German, verb
beurteilen is spelled B-E-U-R-T-E-I-L-E-N (10 letters) and appears 14 times per million words in written German, the 5,262nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Beurteilen is a German verb meaning “to form an opinion on, to judge” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Beurteilen is a different word: “gerund of beurteilen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “über jemanden oder etwas ein Urteil fällen”.
What does beurteilen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to form an opinion on, to judge
noun
- 1
neutergerund of beurteilen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. über jemanden oder etwas ein Urteil fällen
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 beurteilen
- beurteilt present singular third-person
- beurteilte past
- haben auxiliary
- beurteilend participle present
- beurteile first-person indicative present
- beurteilst indicative present second-person
- beurteilest second-person singular subjunctive
- beurteilet plural second-person subjunctive
- beurteilten first-person indicative plural
- beurteiltest indicative preterite second-person
- beurteiltet indicative plural preterite
- beurteil imperative second-person singular
- habe beurteilt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben beurteilt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- beurteile! imperative singular
- beurteilt! imperative plural
- beurteilt haben active infinitive perfect
- beurteilt 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 beurteilen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is beurteilen in German?
beurteilen appears 14 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).