erfordern
Meaning in English: to require, to demand
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Solche Arbeiten erfordern viel Geduld.
Work like this requires a lot of patience.
Forms of erfordern 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 erfordern are also in the top 5,000:
Diese Arbeit erfordert viel Geduld.
This work requires a lot of patience.
How common is erfordern?
erfordern is number 4,915 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 16 times per million words — about once every 62,000 words. Its most frequent form is erfordert (#2,898).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% 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
- 4,911das Motivmotive; motif, subject
- 4,912vorlegento present, to submit
- 4,913sexuellesexual
- 4,914der Schulleiterhead teacher, principal
- 4,915erfordernto require, to demand
- 4,916größterbiggest, greatest
- 4,917effizientefficient
- 4,918zitiertquoted, cited
- 4,919der Betrachtconsideration (in Betracht)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,915
- The most common German verbs#1,226
- German B2 vocabulary#1,214
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.