bevorzugen
German, verb/ˌbəˈfoːɐ̯tsuːɡn/
bevorzugen is spelled B-E-V-O-R-Z-U-G-E-N (10 letters) and appears 6.3 times per million words in written German, the 10,247th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bevorzugen is a German verb meaning “to favor, to prefer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “eine Person oder Sache eher als eine andere wählen”.
What does bevorzugen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to favor, to prefer
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. eine Person oder Sache eher als eine andere wählen 2. jemanden oder etwas besser behandeln als andere
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 bevorzugen
- bevorzugt present singular third-person
- bevorzugte past
- haben auxiliary
- bevorzugend participle present
- bevorzuge first-person indicative present
- bevorzugst indicative present second-person
- bevorzugest second-person singular subjunctive
- bevorzuget plural second-person subjunctive
- bevorzugten first-person indicative plural
- bevorzugtest indicative preterite second-person
- bevorzugtet indicative plural preterite
- bevorzug imperative second-person singular
- habe bevorzugt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben bevorzugt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- bevorzuge! imperative singular
- bevorzugt! imperative plural
- bevorzugt haben active infinitive perfect
- bevorzugt werden processual-passive infinitive present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bevorzugen?
- /ˌbəˈfoːɐ̯tsuːɡn/
- [bəˈfoːɐ̯ˌt͡suːɡn̩]
- [bəˈfoːɐ̯ˌt͡suːɡŋ̩]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bevorzugen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bevorzugen in German?
bevorzugen appears 6.3 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).