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German verb · CEFR B1

begegnen

Meaning in English: to meet, to encounter

Rank 3,007 of 5,000verbLevel B1
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Example

Wir begegnen uns jeden Morgen im Treppenhaus.

We run into each other in the stairwell every morning.

How common is begegnen?

begegnen is number 3,007 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 29 times per million words — about once every 35,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 74% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 3,003ausgebautexpanded, extended
  2. 3,004eingebundeninvolved, integrated
  3. 3,005die Literaturliterature
  4. 3,006das Virusvirus
  5. 3,007begegnento meet, to encounter
  6. 3,008absolviertcompleted
  7. 3,009innereninner, internal
  8. 3,010spätenlate (inflected)
  9. 3,011ausgewähltenselected

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