erhalten
Meaning in English: to receive; to preserve
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Sie erhalten die Rechnung per E-Mail.
You will receive the invoice by email.
Forms of erhalten 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 erhalten are also in the top 5,000:
Jeder Gast erhält ein Getränk gratis.
Every guest receives a free drink.
Sie erhielt die Nachricht erst am Abend.
She didn't get the message until the evening.
Alle Kinder erhielten am Ende eine Medaille.
All the children got a medal at the end.
How common is erhalten?
erhalten is number 175 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 488 times per million words — about once every 2,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 49% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
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In these word lists
- The 500 most common German words#175
- The 1,000 most common German words#175
- The 5,000 most common German words#175
- The most common German verbs#34
- German B1 vocabulary#19
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