eignen
Meaning in English: to be suitable
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Diese Schuhe eignen sich gut zum Wandern.
These shoes are good for hiking.
Forms of eignen 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 eignen are also in the top 5,000:
Der Weg eignet sich auch für Kinderwagen.
The path is also suitable for prams.
How common is eignen?
eignen is number 3,266 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 26 times per million words — about once every 38,000 words. Its most frequent form is eignet (#2,870).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 75% 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
- 3,262nanntenamed, called
- 3,263festefixed, firm, permanent
- 3,264betrugamounted to
- 3,265Programmsof the programme (genitive)
- 3,266eignento be suitable
- 3,267fünftenfifth (inflected)
- 3,268das Halbjahrhalf-year, term
- 3,269leistetachieves, provides, does
- 3,270registriertregistered, noticed
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