German verb · CEFR B2
befragten
Meaning in English: surveyed, questioned
This is a form of befragen, which is not in the top 5,000 on its own — its other forms in the list are befragt.
Example
Die meisten befragten Schüler mögen ihre Schule.
Most of the pupils surveyed like their school.
How common is befragten?
befragten is number 2,454 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 37 times per million words — about once every 27,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 73% 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
- 2,450echtereal, genuine
- 2,451andererseitson the other hand
- 2,452die Erhöhungincrease, raise
- 2,453erinnernremind; remember (sich)
- 2,454befragtensurveyed, questioned
- 2,455viavia, by way of
- 2,456stelltenput, placed; asked (past, plural)
- 2,457angewiesendependent (on), reliant
- 2,458der Erhaltreceipt; preservation
In these word lists
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.