benutzen
Meaning in English: to use
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Darf ich kurz dein Telefon benutzen?
May I use your phone for a moment?
Forms of benutzen 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 benutzen are also in the top 5,000:
Wer hat mein Handtuch benutzt?
Who used my towel?
How common is benutzen?
benutzen is number 2,968 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 30 times per million words — about once every 34,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 74% 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
- 2,964die Freundingirlfriend, (female) friend
- 2,965rechtlichelegal
- 2,966der Abschnittsection, stage, passage
- 2,967aktivierento activate, to enable
- 2,968benutzento use
- 2,969bedrohtthreatened, endangered
- 2,970die Aufklärungclarification, education, Enlightenment
- 2,971die Bereitstellungprovision, supply
- 2,972starbdied
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Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.