bitten
Meaning in English: to ask, to request
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Darf ich Sie um einen Gefallen bitten?
May I ask you a favour?
Forms of bitten 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 bitten are also in the top 5,000:
Sie hat mich um Hilfe gebeten.
She asked me for help.
Die Polizei bittet um Hinweise.
The police are asking for information.
How common is bitten?
bitten is number 1,983 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 46 times per million words — about once every 22,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 71% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Next to it in the frequency list
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- 1,981davorin front of it, before that
- 1,982verbessertimproved
- 1,983bittento ask, to request
- 1,984der Eindruckimpression
- 1,985die Impfungvaccination
- 1,986schnellefast, quick (inflected)
- 1,987finanziellenfinancial (inflected)
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