bewohnen
German, verb/beˈvoːnən/
bewohnen is spelled B-E-W-O-H-N-E-N (8 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written German, the 31,999th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bewohnen is a German verb meaning “to inhabit, to occupy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “in einem Gebäude wohnen, etwas als Wohnraum nutzen”.
What does bewohnen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to inhabit, to occupy
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. in einem Gebäude wohnen, etwas als Wohnraum nutzen
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 bewohnen
- bewohnt present singular third-person
- bewohnte past
- haben auxiliary
- bewohnend participle present
- bewohne first-person indicative present
- bewohnst indicative present second-person
- bewohnest second-person singular subjunctive
- bewohnet plural second-person subjunctive
- bewohnten first-person indicative plural
- bewohntest indicative preterite second-person
- bewohntet indicative plural preterite
- bewohn imperative second-person singular
- habe bewohnt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben bewohnt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- bewohne! imperative singular
- bewohnt! imperative plural
- bewohnt haben active infinitive perfect
- bewohnt werden processual-passive infinitive present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bewohnen?
- /beˈvoːnən/
- [bəˈvoːnən]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bewohnen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bewohnen in German?
bewohnen appears 1.3 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).