blicken
Meaning in English: to look, to glance
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Wir blicken optimistisch in die Zukunft.
We look to the future with optimism.
Forms of blicken 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 blicken are also in the top 5,000:
Sie blickt nervös auf die Uhr.
She glances nervously at the clock.
How common is blicken?
blicken is number 3,598 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 23 times per million words — about once every 43,000 words. Its most frequent form is blickt (#3,472).
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.
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