betreiben
Meaning in English: run, operate; do (a sport)
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Welchen Sport betreiben Sie?
What sport do you do?
Forms of betreiben 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 betreiben are also in the top 5,000:
Das Café wird von zwei Schwestern betrieben.
The café is run by two sisters.
Ihre Familie betreibt ein kleines Hotel.
Her family runs a small hotel.
How common is betreiben?
betreiben is number 2,721 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 33 times per million words — about once every 30,000 words. Its most frequent form is betrieben (#1,602).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 74% 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
- 2,717teurermore expensive
- 2,718das Dorfvillage
- 2,719meistensmostly, usually
- 2,720einstellenhire; adjust, set; stop
- 2,721betreibenrun, operate; do (a sport)
- 2,722leichtelight, easy
- 2,723beschriebendescribed
- 2,724investiertinvested
- 2,725schwarzblack
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