erreichen
Meaning in English: reach, achieve
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Ich konnte dich gestern leider nicht erreichen.
Unfortunately I couldn't reach you yesterday.
Forms of erreichen 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 erreichen are also in the top 5,000:
Wir haben den Zug gerade noch erreicht.
We only just caught the train.
Der Brief erreichte uns erst nach zwei Wochen.
The letter only reached us after two weeks.
How common is erreichen?
erreichen is number 504 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 179 times per million words — about once every 5,600 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 58% 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
- 500die Regelrule
- 501das Wasserwater
- 502weitfar, wide
- 503die Personperson
- 504erreichenreach, achieve
- 505dir(to) you (dative, informal)
- 506solchesuch
- 507Angeboteoffers, deals
- 508jedesevery, each (neuter)
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#504
- The 5,000 most common German words#504
- The most common German verbs#105
- German B1 vocabulary#92
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.