aufbauen
Meaning in English: to set up, to build up
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Vor dem Regen müssen wir noch das Zelt aufbauen.
We still have to put up the tent before the rain.
Forms of aufbauen 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 aufbauen are also in the top 5,000:
Er hat die Firma allein aufgebaut.
He built up the company on his own.
Es kostet viel Zeit, Vertrauen aufzubauen.
It takes a lot of time to build trust.
How common is aufbauen?
aufbauen is number 3,547 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 24 times per million words — about once every 42,000 words. Its most frequent form is aufgebaut (#1,913).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Related words in the list
aufbauen is built from bauen (to build).
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,543die Expertiseexpertise; expert opinion
- 3,544das Kinocinema, movies
- 3,545die Tabelletable, chart; league table
- 3,546zeitnahpromptly, soon
- 3,547aufbauento set up, to build up
- 3,548musikalischemusical
- 3,549betreffento affect, to concern
- 3,550die Klagelawsuit; complaint
- 3,551Variantenvariants, versions
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