erwarten
Meaning in English: to expect, to wait for
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Wir erwarten heute Abend Besuch.
We're expecting visitors this evening.
Forms of erwarten 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 erwarten are also in the top 5,000:
Wir haben dich erst morgen erwartet.
We weren't expecting you until tomorrow.
How common is erwarten?
erwarten is number 1,091 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 83 times per million words — about once every 12,000 words. Its most frequent form is erwartet (#676).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 65% 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
- 1,087der Toddeath
- 1,088stattfindento take place
- 1,089profitierento benefit, to profit
- 1,090der Bodenfloor, ground, soil
- 1,091erwartento expect, to wait for
- 1,092die Stundehour, lesson
- 1,093automatischautomatic(ally)
- 1,094sodassso that
- 1,095startetstarts, launches
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