German verb · CEFR B1

einstellen

Meaning in English: hire; adjust, set; stop

Rank 2,720 of 5,000verbLevel B12 forms in the list
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Example

Wir wollen zwei neue Mitarbeiter einstellen.

We want to hire two new employees.

Forms of einstellen 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 einstellen are also in the top 5,000:

eingestellt#2,044
hired; set, adjusted; stoppedB1

Die Firma hat zwei neue Mitarbeiter eingestellt.
The company has hired two new employees.

How common is einstellen?

einstellen is number 2,720 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 33 times per million words — about once every 30,000 words. Its most frequent form is eingestellt (#2,044).

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 74% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.

Related words in the list

einstellen is built from stellen (to put, to place (upright)).

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 2,716stammencome from, originate
  2. 2,717teurermore expensive
  3. 2,718das Dorfvillage
  4. 2,719meistensmostly, usually
  5. 2,720einstellenhire; adjust, set; stop
  6. 2,721betreibenrun, operate; do (a sport)
  7. 2,722leichtelight, easy
  8. 2,723beschriebendescribed
  9. 2,724investiertinvested

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