bilden
Meaning in English: to form, to educate
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Bitte bilden Sie einen Kreis.
Please form a circle.
Forms of bilden 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 bilden are also in the top 5,000:
Vor der Kasse bildet sich eine lange Schlange.
A long queue is forming at the checkout.
Vor dem Eingang hat sich eine lange Schlange gebildet.
A long queue has formed in front of the entrance.
How common is bilden?
bilden is number 1,108 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 82 times per million words — about once every 12,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 65% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
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