drehen
Meaning in English: to turn; to shoot (a film)
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Sie drehen gerade einen Film in unserer Straße.
They're shooting a film in our street right now.
Forms of drehen 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 drehen are also in the top 5,000:
Er dreht den Schlüssel langsam im Schloss.
He slowly turns the key in the lock.
How common is drehen?
drehen is number 3,772 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 22 times per million words — about once every 45,000 words. Its most frequent form is dreht (#3,519).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% 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
- 3,768verständlichunderstandable, clear
- 3,769eingehaltenkept, observed, met (rules, deadlines)
- 3,770schwierigermore difficult
- 3,771Kriegesof the war (genitive)
- 3,772drehento turn; to shoot (a film)
- 3,773vornat the front, in front
- 3,774die Abrechnungbill, statement; settlement
- 3,775der Postenpost, position; item
- 3,776Ergebnissenresults (dative pl.)
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