besitzen
Meaning in English: to own, to possess
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Viele junge Leute besitzen kein Auto mehr.
Many young people no longer own a car.
Forms of besitzen 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 besitzen are also in the top 5,000:
Er besitzt nicht einmal einen Fernseher.
He doesn't even own a TV.
How common is besitzen?
besitzen is number 2,389 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 38 times per million words — about once every 27,000 words. Its most frequent form is besitzt (#2,302).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 72% 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
- 2,385gesetzlichlegal, statutory
- 2,386der Schnittcut; average (im Schnitt)
- 2,387die Abteilungdepartment
- 2,388produziertproduced
- 2,389besitzento own, to possess
- 2,390direktendirect (inflected)
- 2,391übrigenremaining, other; (im Übrigen) besides
- 2,392die Fristdeadline, time limit
- 2,393verbindetconnects, links; bandages
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