bestätigen
Meaning in English: confirm
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Bitte bestätigen Sie Ihre E-Mail-Adresse.
Please confirm your email address.
Forms of bestätigen 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 bestätigen are also in the top 5,000:
Das Hotel hat unsere Buchung per E-Mail bestätigt.
The hotel confirmed our booking by email.
Der Arzt bestätigte meinen Verdacht.
The doctor confirmed my suspicion.
How common is bestätigen?
bestätigen is number 2,654 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 34 times per million words — about once every 30,000 words. Its most frequent form is bestätigt (#1,255).
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
- 2,650der Kundecustomer, client
- 2,651kontinuierlichcontinuous, steadily
- 2,652der Versuchattempt, try; experiment
- 2,653fortaway, gone; onward
- 2,654bestätigenconfirm
- 2,655die Genehmigungpermission, permit
- 2,656der Bordboard (an Bord = on board)
- 2,657die Mieterent
- 2,658die Sprecherinspokeswoman, speaker (female)
In these word lists
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.