bewirken
German, verb/bəˈvɪʁkən/
bewirken is spelled B-E-W-I-R-K-E-N (8 letters) and appears 8.9 times per million words in written German, the 7,736th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bewirken is a German verb meaning “to bring about (to cause to take place)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “eine Wirkung herbeiführen”.
What does bewirken mean in English?
verb
- 1
to bring about (to cause to take place)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. eine Wirkung herbeiführen
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 bewirken
- bewirkt present singular third-person
- bewirkte past
- haben auxiliary
- bewirkend participle present
- bewirke first-person indicative present
- bewirkst indicative present second-person
- bewirkest second-person singular subjunctive
- bewirket plural second-person subjunctive
- bewirkten first-person indicative plural
- bewirktest indicative preterite second-person
- bewirktet indicative plural preterite
- bewirk imperative second-person singular
- habe bewirkt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben bewirkt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- bewirk! imperative singular
- bewirke! imperative singular
- bewirkt! imperative plural
- bewirkt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bewirken?
- /bəˈvɪʁkən/
- [bəˈvɪʁkŋ̩]
- [bəˈvɪʁkn̩]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bewirken
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bewirken in German?
bewirken appears 8.9 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).