besuchen
Meaning in English: to visit, to attend
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Am Wochenende besuchen wir meine Eltern.
At the weekend we're visiting my parents.
Forms of besuchen 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 besuchen are also in the top 5,000:
Letzte Woche hat uns Oma besucht.
Grandma visited us last week.
Letzte Woche besuchte ich meine Tante in Köln.
Last week I visited my aunt in Cologne.
How common is besuchen?
besuchen is number 1,200 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 76 times per million words — about once every 13,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 66% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,196gleichensame
- 1,197hörento hear, to listen
- 1,198Beschäftigtenemployees, staff
- 1,199gewonnenwon
- 1,200besuchento visit, to attend
- 1,201unbedingtabsolutely, by all means
- 1,202vertretento represent, to stand in for
- 1,203nachhaltigesustainable
- 1,204digitaldigital(ly)
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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.