entstehen
Meaning in English: arise, come about, be created
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Dabei können hohe Kosten entstehen.
This can result in high costs.
Forms of entstehen 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 entstehen are also in the top 5,000:
Die Idee ist beim Kaffeetrinken entstanden.
The idea came about over coffee.
Hier entsteht ein neuer Spielplatz.
A new playground is being built here.
Die Idee entstand beim Frühstück.
The idea came about over breakfast.
How common is entstehen?
entstehen is number 780 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 114 times per million words — about once every 8,800 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 62% 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
- 776unterschiedlichendifferent, various
- 777offenbarapparently, evidently
- 778Punktepoints
- 779allall
- 780entstehenarise, come about, be created
- 781teilteshared, divided
- 782die Qualitätquality
- 783die Verantwortungresponsibility
- 784dürftewould probably; might be allowed
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#780
- The 5,000 most common German words#780
- The most common German verbs#163
- German B2 vocabulary#68
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.