dauern
Meaning in English: to last, to take (time)
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Wie lange wird die Reparatur dauern?
How long will the repair take?
Forms of dauern 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 dauern are also in the top 5,000:
Wie lange dauert die Fahrt?
How long does the journey take?
How common is dauern?
dauern is number 2,256 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 40 times per million words — about once every 25,000 words. Its most frequent form is dauert (#1,749).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 72% 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
- 2,252frühereformer, earlier (inflected)
- 2,253das Handwerkcraft, trade; skilled trades
- 2,254vorabin advance, beforehand
- 2,255schlägthits, beats; suggests (vor-)
- 2,256dauernto last, to take (time)
- 2,257der Vordergrundforeground
- 2,258rausout (colloquial)
- 2,259positivenpositive (inflected)
- 2,260Umständencircumstances (dative plural)
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Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.