bereiten
Meaning in English: to prepare, to cause
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Die Kinder bereiten ihren Eltern viel Freude.
The children give their parents a lot of joy.
Forms of bereiten 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 bereiten are also in the top 5,000:
Das neue Handy bereitet mir nur Ärger.
The new phone is causing me nothing but trouble.
How common is bereiten?
bereiten is number 3,331 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 26 times per million words — about once every 39,000 words. Its most frequent form is bereitet (#2,922).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 75% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Related words in the list
Words built on bereiten:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,327irgendwiesomehow, sort of
- 3,328meldetreports, gets in touch
- 3,329der Angreiferattacker, striker
- 3,330erhöhteincreased, raised
- 3,331bereitento prepare, to cause
- 3,332analysiertanalysed
- 3,333die Nachrichtenagenturnews agency
- 3,334falschewrong, false
- 3,335trinkento drink
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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.