öffnen
Meaning in English: to open
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Kannst du bitte das Fenster öffnen?
Can you open the window, please?
Forms of öffnen 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 öffnen are also in the top 5,000:
Die Bäckerei ist auch sonntags geöffnet.
The bakery is open on Sundays too.
Der Laden öffnet um neun Uhr.
The shop opens at nine o'clock.
How common is öffnen?
öffnen is number 1,530 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 60 times per million words — about once every 17,000 words. Its most frequent form is geöffnet (#1,363).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 68% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,526der Vorteiladvantage
- 1,527der Linklink
- 1,528Organisationenorganisations
- 1,529der Texttext
- 1,530öffnento open
- 1,531reisento travel
- 1,532Methodenmethods
- 1,533Sachenthings, stuff
- 1,534inklusiveincluding, included
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