betreuen
Meaning in English: to look after, to supervise
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Am Wochenende betreuen die Großeltern unsere Kinder.
At weekends the grandparents look after our children.
Forms of betreuen 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 betreuen are also in the top 5,000:
Die Kinder werden nachmittags im Hort betreut.
The children are looked after at the after-school club.
How common is betreuen?
betreuen is number 4,011 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 21 times per million words — about once every 48,000 words. Its most frequent form is betreut (#1,785).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% 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
- 4,007fehlendemissing, lacking
- 4,008das Modulmodule
- 4,009langfristigelong-term
- 4,010binnenwithin
- 4,011betreuento look after, to supervise
- 4,012der Vorsprunglead, head start
- 4,013die Rechtsgrundlagelegal basis
- 4,014die Performanceperformance
- 4,015kmkm (kilometre)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,011
- The most common German verbs#1,010
- German B1 vocabulary#1,294
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