befreien
Meaning in English: to free, to liberate
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Die Feuerwehr musste den Fahrer aus dem Auto befreien.
The fire brigade had to free the driver from the car.
Forms of befreien 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 befreien are also in the top 5,000:
Die Feuerwehr hat den Fahrer aus dem Auto befreit.
The fire brigade freed the driver from the car.
How common is befreien?
befreien is number 4,479 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 18 times per million words — about once every 55,000 words. Its most frequent form is befreit (#4,030).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% 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
- 4,475mitnehmento take along, to give a lift
- 4,476kehrtreturns (zurück); sweeps
- 4,477Verbesserungenimprovements
- 4,478warfthrew
- 4,479befreiento free, to liberate
- 4,480die Kindheitchildhood
- 4,481verantwortlicheresponsible, in charge
- 4,482der Hasshatred, hate
- 4,483regeltregulates, sorts out
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,479
- The most common German verbs#1,125
- German B2 vocabulary#1,081
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.