German verb · CEFR B1

erleben

Meaning in English: experience

Rank 848 of 5,000verbLevel B12 forms in the list
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Example

Solche Momente möchte ich öfter erleben.

I'd like to experience moments like that more often.

Forms of erleben 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 erleben are also in the top 5,000:

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Im Urlaub haben wir viel erlebt.
We had lots of experiences on holiday.

How common is erleben?

erleben is number 848 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

  1. 844internationaleinternational
  2. 845die Naturnature
  3. 846die Digitalisierungdigitalization
  4. 847Zielegoals, targets
  5. 848erlebenexperience
  6. 849der Filmfilm, movie
  7. 850erkennenrecognize, realize
  8. 851eingesetztused, deployed
  9. 852die Liebelove

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