German verb · CEFR B2
befragt
Meaning in English: questioned, surveyed
This is a form of befragen, which is not in the top 5,000 on its own — its other forms in the list are befragten.
Example
Die Polizei hat alle Nachbarn befragt.
The police questioned all the neighbours.
How common is befragt?
befragt is number 3,937 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 21 times per million words — about once every 47,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% 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
- 3,933günstigencheap, favourable
- 3,934aufzunehmento take in, to record (zu-inf.)
- 3,935Einheitenunits
- 3,936grundlegendefundamental, basic
- 3,937befragtquestioned, surveyed
- 3,938wiesowhy
- 3,939füllento fill
- 3,940die Autorinauthor, writer (female)
- 3,941das Budgetbudget
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Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.