betragen
Meaning in English: to amount to, to be
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Die Kosten betragen etwa hundert Euro.
The costs come to about a hundred euros.
Forms of betragen 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 betragen are also in the top 5,000:
Die Miete beträgt 900 Euro im Monat.
The rent is 900 euros a month.
Die Rechnung betrug am Ende fast hundert Euro.
In the end the bill came to almost a hundred euros.
How common is betragen?
betragen is number 3,542 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 24 times per million words — about once every 42,000 words. Its most frequent form is beträgt (#1,165).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,538untergebrachtaccommodated, housed; stored
- 3,539die Tatsachefact
- 3,540die Amtszeitterm of office
- 3,541die Notwendigkeitnecessity, need
- 3,542betragento amount to, to be
- 3,543die Expertiseexpertise; expert opinion
- 3,544das Kinocinema, movies
- 3,545die Tabelletable, chart; league table
- 3,546zeitnahpromptly, soon
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