anlegen
Meaning in English: to create, to lay out; to invest
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Ich möchte ein neues Konto anlegen.
I'd like to set up a new account.
Forms of anlegen 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 anlegen are also in the top 5,000:
Hinter dem Haus haben wir einen Garten angelegt.
We laid out a garden behind the house.
How common is anlegen?
anlegen is number 4,558 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 18 times per million words — about once every 57,000 words. Its most frequent form is angelegt (#3,015).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% 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
- 4,554die Operopera, opera house
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- 4,556die Arbeitsgruppeworking group
- 4,557präsentpresent, prominent
- 4,558anlegento create, to lay out; to invest
- 4,559die Qualifizierungqualification, training
- 4,560Armearms
- 4,561der Streikstrike
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In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,558
- The most common German verbs#1,147
- German B2 vocabulary#1,109
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.