erscheinen
Meaning in English: to appear, to be published
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Ihr neues Buch soll im Frühling erscheinen.
Her new book is due to be published in spring.
Forms of erscheinen 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 erscheinen are also in the top 5,000:
Sein neues Buch erscheint im März.
His new book comes out in March.
Ihr neues Buch ist letzte Woche erschienen.
Her new book came out last week.
Sein erstes Buch erschien vor zehn Jahren.
His first book came out ten years ago.
How common is erscheinen?
erscheinen is number 2,158 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 42 times per million words — about once every 24,000 words. Its most frequent form is erscheint (#1,598).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 71% 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
- 2,154müsstewould have to, should
- 2,155greifento grab, to reach for
- 2,156die BundesligaBundesliga (German top league)
- 2,157Flächenareas, surfaces
- 2,158erscheinento appear, to be published
- 2,159behaltento keep; to remember
- 2,160reduzierento reduce
- 2,161linkeleft; left-wing (inflected)
- 2,162Bundesländernfederal states (dative plural)
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Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.