beobachten
Meaning in English: observe, watch
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Wir beobachten gern die Vögel im Garten.
We like watching the birds in the garden.
Forms of beobachten 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 beobachten are also in the top 5,000:
Ich habe den Unfall genau beobachtet.
I watched the accident closely.
How common is beobachten?
beobachten is number 2,513 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 36 times per million words — about once every 28,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 73% 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
- 2,509freiwilligevoluntary, volunteer
- 2,510offiziellenofficial
- 2,511momentanat the moment, currently
- 2,512die Einschätzungassessment, estimate
- 2,513beobachtenobserve, watch
- 2,514Bildernpictures (dative plural)
- 2,515pädagogischeneducational, pedagogical
- 2,516das Bundeslandfederal state
- 2,517werfenthrow
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