benötigen
Meaning in English: need, require
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Für die Anmeldung benötigen Sie Ihren Ausweis.
You need your ID to register.
Forms of benötigen 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 benötigen are also in the top 5,000:
Für die Anmeldung wird ein Ausweis benötigt.
An ID card is needed to register.
Wir benötigten mehr Zeit als geplant.
We needed more time than planned.
How common is benötigen?
benötigen is number 920 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 96 times per million words — about once every 10,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 64% 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
- 916die Kunstart
- 917drittethird
- 918andererother, another; different
- 919der Anbieterprovider, supplier
- 920benötigenneed, require
- 921sogenanntenso-called
- 922der Menschhuman being, person
- 923beteiligteninvolved
- 924die Prüfungexam, test; inspection
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#920
- The 5,000 most common German words#920
- The most common German verbs#194
- German B1 vocabulary#239
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.