erkennen
Meaning in English: recognize, realize
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Mit der neuen Frisur kann man dich kaum erkennen.
With your new haircut you're hard to recognize.
Forms of erkennen 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 erkennen are also in the top 5,000:
Mit der neuen Frisur habe ich dich kaum erkannt.
I hardly recognised you with your new haircut.
Mein Hund erkennt mich schon von Weitem.
My dog recognises me from far away.
How common is erkennen?
erkennen is number 850 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 104 times per million words — about once every 9,600 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 63% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 846die Digitalisierungdigitalization
- 847Zielegoals, targets
- 848erlebenexperience
- 849der Filmfilm, movie
- 850erkennenrecognize, realize
- 851eingesetztused, deployed
- 852die Liebelove
- 853schreibenwrite
- 854arbeitetworks
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#850
- The 5,000 most common German words#850
- The most common German verbs#177
- German B1 vocabulary#219
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.