erfassen
Meaning in English: to record, to register; to grasp
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Wir müssen alle Arbeitsstunden genau erfassen.
We have to record all working hours precisely.
Forms of erfassen 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 erfassen are also in the top 5,000:
Alle Bestellungen werden im System erfasst.
All orders are recorded in the system.
How common is erfassen?
erfassen is number 3,510 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 24 times per million words — about once every 41,000 words. Its most frequent form is erfasst (#1,637).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% of the words in an ordinary German text. C1 means an advanced word, mostly met in formal or written German.
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- 3,510erfassento record, to register; to grasp
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