bemühen
Meaning in English: to try hard (sich bemühen)
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Forms of bemühen 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 bemühen are also in the top 5,000:
Er hat sich sehr bemüht, pünktlich zu sein.
He tried very hard to be on time.
How common is bemühen?
bemühen is number 4,980 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 16 times per million words — about once every 63,000 words. Its most frequent form is bemüht (#3,970).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 79% 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
- 4,976das Kabinettcabinet (government)
- 4,977künstlerischeartistic
- 4,978freigegebenreleased, cleared, approved
- 4,979der Lebensraumhabitat, living space
- 4,980bemühento try hard (sich bemühen)
- 4,981Bibliothekenlibraries
- 4,982irgendwosomewhere, anywhere
- 4,983das Frühstückbreakfast
- 4,984der Dealdeal
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,980
- The most common German verbs#1,242
- German B2 vocabulary#1,231
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.