German verb · CEFR A2

begrüßen

Meaning in English: to greet, to welcome

Rank 3,380 of 5,000verbLevel A22 forms in the list
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Example

Wir begrüßen unsere Gäste an der Tür.

We greet our guests at the door.

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

begrüßt#3,246
greeted, welcomedB1

Der Gastgeber hat jeden Gast persönlich begrüßt.
The host greeted every guest personally.

How common is begrüßen?

begrüßen is number 3,380 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 25 times per million words — about once every 40,000 words. Its most frequent form is begrüßt (#3,246).

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. 3,376Hundedogs
  2. 3,377impfento vaccinate
  3. 3,378umfangreichenextensive, comprehensive
  4. 3,379negativennegative
  5. 3,380begrüßento greet, to welcome
  6. 3,381der Fondsfund
  7. 3,382IndienIndia
  8. 3,383versuchtetried
  9. 3,384betrachtento look at, to consider

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