ergeben
Meaning in English: to result in, to yield
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Zwei und drei ergeben fünf.
Two and three make five.
Forms of ergeben 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 ergeben are also in the top 5,000:
Das ergibt doch keinen Sinn!
That doesn't make any sense!
Die Untersuchung ergab nichts Neues.
The examination revealed nothing new.
How common is ergeben?
ergeben is number 1,540 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 60 times per million words — about once every 17,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 68% 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
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- 1,540ergebento result in, to yield
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- 1,543SchweizerSwiss, Swiss person
- 1,544der Umfangextent, scope, size
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