arbeiten
Meaning in English: to work
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Am Wochenende arbeiten wir nicht.
We don't work at the weekend.
Forms of arbeiten 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 arbeiten are also in the top 5,000:
Meine Schwester arbeitet in einem Krankenhaus.
My sister works in a hospital.
Heute habe ich zehn Stunden gearbeitet.
I worked ten hours today.
Früher arbeitete er als Koch in Italien.
He used to work as a cook in Italy.
Heute arbeite ich von zu Hause.
Today I'm working from home.
How common is arbeiten?
arbeiten is number 235 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 366 times per million words — about once every 2,700 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 52% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
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In these word lists
- The 500 most common German words#235
- The 1,000 most common German words#235
- The 5,000 most common German words#235
- The most common German verbs#47
- German A1 vocabulary#152
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