ersetzen
Meaning in English: replace
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Das alte Handy muss ich bald ersetzen.
I'll have to replace my old phone soon.
Forms of ersetzen 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 ersetzen are also in the top 5,000:
Die kaputte Scheibe wird morgen ersetzt.
The broken pane will be replaced tomorrow.
How common is ersetzen?
ersetzen is number 2,786 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 32 times per million words — about once every 31,000 words. Its most frequent form is ersetzt (#2,309).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 74% 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
- 2,782Haushaltehouseholds
- 2,783Krankheitendiseases, illnesses
- 2,784schönenbeautiful, nice
- 2,785die Variantevariant, version
- 2,786ersetzenreplace
- 2,787lokalelocal
- 2,788Vorsitzenderchairman, chair
- 2,789der BundesratFederal Council (upper house)
- 2,790die Kenntnisknowledge, awareness
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