überprüfen
Meaning in English: to check, to verify
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Test my vocabularyExample
Kannst du bitte noch mal die Adresse überprüfen?
Can you check the address again, please?
Forms of überprüfen 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 überprüfen are also in the top 5,000:
Die Polizei hat seine Papiere überprüft.
The police checked his papers.
How common is überprüfen?
überprüfen is number 2,301 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 39 times per million words — about once every 25,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 72% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Related words in the list
überprüfen is built from prüfen (to check, to examine).
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,297der Gegensatzcontrast, opposite
- 2,298Anregungensuggestions, ideas, stimulus
- 2,299weisento point, to show; to refer
- 2,300älterenolder, elderly (inflected)
- 2,301überprüfento check, to verify
- 2,302besitztowns, possesses
- 2,303aufnehmento record; to take in, to admit
- 2,304die Vorstellungidea, notion; performance; introduction
- 2,305stiegclimbed, rose; got (on/off)
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.