German verb · CEFR B1
behauptet
Meaning in English: claims, claimed
This is a form of behaupten, which is not in the top 5,000 on its own.
Example
Er behauptet, er habe nichts gewusst.
He claims he didn't know anything.
How common is behauptet?
behauptet is number 4,046 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 21 times per million words — about once every 49,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% 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
- 4,042das Elementelement
- 4,043Praktikainternships
- 4,044entspanntrelaxed
- 4,045hinterlassento leave (behind)
- 4,046behauptetclaims, claimed
- 4,047starkerstrong
- 4,048bewahrento keep, to preserve
- 4,049das Ticketticket
- 4,050Angelegenheitenmatters, affairs
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,046
- The most common German verbs#1,017
- German B1 vocabulary#1,307
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