German verb · CEFR A2

bedeuten

Meaning in English: to mean

Rank 3,257 of 5,000verbLevel A22 forms in the list
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Was soll das bedeuten?

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Forms of bedeuten 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 bedeuten are also in the top 5,000:

bedeutet#525
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How common is bedeuten?

bedeuten is number 3,257 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 26 times per million words — about once every 38,000 words. Its most frequent form is bedeutet (#525).

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 75% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 3,253langerlong (inflected)
  2. 3,254die Hitzeheat
  3. 3,255städtischenmunicipal, urban
  4. 3,256die Landschaftlandscape, scenery
  5. 3,257bedeutento mean
  6. 3,258gerechnetcalculated, expected
  7. 3,259gleichermaßenequally, alike
  8. 3,260verbundenenconnected, associated
  9. 3,261die Solidaritätsolidarity

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