dienen
Meaning in English: to serve
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Die alten Kisten können als Regal dienen.
The old crates can serve as a shelf.
Forms of dienen 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 dienen are also in the top 5,000:
Der Keller dient uns als Werkstatt.
The basement serves as our workshop.
How common is dienen?
dienen is number 1,267 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 72 times per million words — about once every 14,000 words. Its most frequent form is dient (#1,209).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 67% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,263die Gestaltungdesign, arrangement
- 1,264die Funktionfunction, role
- 1,265genausojust as, exactly the same
- 1,266überalleverywhere
- 1,267dienento serve
- 1,268steigtrises, climbs, gets on
- 1,269fördertpromotes, supports, funds
- 1,270schönbeautiful, nice
- 1,271sprachspoke
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