drohen
Meaning in English: to threaten, to loom
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Wer zu schnell fährt, dem drohen hohe Strafen.
Anyone who speeds faces heavy fines.
Forms of drohen 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 drohen are also in the top 5,000:
Am Nachmittag droht ein Gewitter.
A thunderstorm is looming for the afternoon.
How common is drohen?
drohen is number 3,446 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 25 times per million words — about once every 41,000 words. Its most frequent form is droht (#1,916).
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.
Next to it in the frequency list
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- 3,443der Übergangtransition; crossing
- 3,444geimpftvaccinated
- 3,445natürlichennatural
- 3,446drohento threaten, to loom
- 3,447das Klinikumhospital, clinic (complex)
- 3,448der Anhängersupporter, follower; trailer; pendant
- 3,449perfekteperfect
- 3,450die Stadtverwaltungcity administration, city council
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