bezeugen
German, verb/bəˈt͡sɔʏ̯ɡən/
bezeugen is spelled B-E-Z-E-U-G-E-N (8 letters) and appears 2.5 times per million words in written German, the 20,880th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bezeugen is a German verb meaning “to witness, to testify” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas bestätigen, als jemand, der die Umstände kennt (Zeuge ist)”.
What does bezeugen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to witness, to testify
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas bestätigen, als jemand, der die Umstände kennt (Zeuge ist) 2. eine glaubhafte Bestätigung (Zeugnis) abgeben 3. zum Ausdruck bringen
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 bezeugen
- bezeugt present singular third-person
- bezeugte past
- haben auxiliary
- bezeugend participle present
- bezeuge first-person indicative present
- bezeugst indicative present second-person
- bezeugest second-person singular subjunctive
- bezeuget plural second-person subjunctive
- bezeugten first-person indicative plural
- bezeugtest indicative preterite second-person
- bezeugtet indicative plural preterite
- bezeug imperative second-person singular
- habe bezeugt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben bezeugt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- bezeug! imperative singular
- bezeuge! imperative singular
- bezeugt! imperative plural
- bezeugt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bezeugen?
- /bəˈt͡sɔʏ̯ɡən/
- [bəˈt͡sɔʏ̯ɡn̩]
- [bəˈt͡sɔʏ̯ɡŋ̍]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bezeugen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bezeugen in German?
bezeugen appears 2.5 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).