erlauben
Meaning in English: to allow, to permit
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Meine Eltern erlauben mir das nicht.
My parents don't allow me to do that.
Forms of erlauben 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 erlauben are also in the top 5,000:
Rauchen ist hier nicht erlaubt.
Smoking is not allowed here.
How common is erlauben?
erlauben is number 4,237 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 19 times per million words — about once every 52,000 words. Its most frequent form is erlaubt (#1,347).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,233habhave (I, colloquial)
- 4,234verschaffento get, to obtain, to provide
- 4,235die Feiercelebration, party
- 4,236die Optimierungoptimisation, improvement
- 4,237erlaubento allow, to permit
- 4,238die Prioritätpriority
- 4,239die Evaluationevaluation
- 4,240das Gehaltsalary
- 4,241stoppento stop
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