German verb · CEFR B1
überleben
Meaning in English: to survive
Example
Ohne Wasser kann man nur wenige Tage überleben.
Without water you can only survive a few days.
How common is überleben?
überleben is number 4,350 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 19 times per million words — about once every 53,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Related words in the list
überleben is built from leben (to live, to be alive).
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,346zwischenzeitlichin the meantime, temporarily
- 4,347relevantrelevant
- 4,348wohinwhere (to)
- 4,349vermisstmisses, missing
- 4,350überlebento survive
- 4,351der Vormittagmorning (before noon)
- 4,352passendsuitable, matching, exact (change)
- 4,353angebotenenoffered
- 4,354die Erholungrest, recovery, relaxation
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,350
- The most common German verbs#1,097
- German B1 vocabulary#1,419
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