German verb · CEFR A2

ändern

Meaning in English: to change

Rank 1,080 of 5,000verbLevel A23 forms in the list
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Example

Kann ich meine Buchung noch ändern?

Can I still change my booking?

Forms of ändern in the top 5,000

German verbs change their ending with the person and tense, and each form is counted on its own. These forms of ändern are also in the top 5,000:

geändert#2,060
changedA2

Hast du dein Passwort schon geändert?
Have you changed your password yet?

ändert#3,026
changesA2

Das ändert leider nichts an der Situation.
Unfortunately that doesn't change the situation.

How common is ändern?

ändern is number 1,080 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 84 times per million words — about once every 12,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 65% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 1,076der Körperbody
  2. 1,077das Konzeptconcept, plan
  3. 1,078kostenlosfree (of charge)
  4. 1,079das Publikumaudience, public
  5. 1,080ändernto change
  6. 1,081die Zeitungnewspaper
  7. 1,082außerhalboutside (of)
  8. 1,083fallento fall, to drop
  9. 1,084der Vertragcontract

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