German verb · CEFR A2
behalten
Meaning in English: to keep; to remember
Example
Das Wechselgeld kannst du behalten.
You can keep the change.
How common is behalten?
behalten is number 2,159 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 42 times per million words — about once every 24,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 71% 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
- 2,155greifento grab, to reach for
- 2,156die BundesligaBundesliga (German top league)
- 2,157Flächenareas, surfaces
- 2,158erscheinento appear, to be published
- 2,159behaltento keep; to remember
- 2,160reduzierento reduce
- 2,161linkeleft; left-wing (inflected)
- 2,162Bundesländernfederal states (dative plural)
- 2,163das Handymobile phone, cell phone
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