german5000
My words Take the test
German verb · CEFR B2

äußern

Meaning in English: to express, to voice

Rank 3,594 of 5,000verbLevel B23 forms in the list
Learn this word

Add äußern and its 2 forms to your reviews. Progress stays in this browser.

Test my vocabulary

Example

Sie wollte sich dazu nicht äußern.

She didn't want to comment on that.

Forms of äußern 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 äußern are also in the top 5,000:

äußerte#3,754
expressed, voicedC1

Sie äußerte Zweifel an dem Plan.
She expressed doubts about the plan.

geäußert#4,076
expressed, voicedB2

Hat er seine Meinung dazu schon geäußert?
Has he given his opinion on it yet?

How common is äußern?

äußern is number 3,594 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 23 times per million words — about once every 43,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 3,590die Oppositionopposition
  2. 3,591Mengenquantities, amounts
  3. 3,592studiertstudies; studied
  4. 3,593verlegtmoved, relocated; laid; mislaid
  5. 3,594äußernto express, to voice
  6. 3,595wem(to) whom (dative)
  7. 3,596hinweisento point out, to draw attention to
  8. 3,597negativnegative
  9. 3,598blickento look, to glance

In these word lists

Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.