bauen
Meaning in English: to build
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Meine Eltern wollen ein Haus auf dem Land bauen.
My parents want to build a house in the country.
Forms of bauen 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 bauen are also in the top 5,000:
Die Kinder haben eine Sandburg gebaut.
The children built a sandcastle.
Mein Nachbar baut gerade eine Garage.
My neighbour is building a garage.
How common is bauen?
bauen is number 1,338 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 68 times per million words — about once every 15,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 67% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Related words in the list
Words built on bauen:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,334die Demokratiedemocracy
- 1,335offenenopen
- 1,336erklärento explain, to declare
- 1,337begonnenbegun, started
- 1,338bauento build
- 1,339Parteienparties (political)
- 1,340Kompetenzenskills, competences
- 1,341maximalat most, maximum
- 1,342die Bewerbungapplication (job)
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