erwerben
Meaning in English: to acquire, to purchase
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Tickets können Sie auch online erwerben.
You can also buy tickets online.
Forms of erwerben 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 erwerben are also in the top 5,000:
Die Tickets können online erworben werden.
The tickets can be bought online.
How common is erwerben?
erwerben is number 2,143 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 43 times per million words — about once every 24,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 71% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,139der Richterjudge(s)
- 2,140wechselnto change, to switch
- 2,141selbermyself, yourself etc. (colloquial)
- 2,142erstesfirst (inflected)
- 2,143erwerbento acquire, to purchase
- 2,144beziehento refer to; to receive; to move into
- 2,145dargestelltshown, depicted, portrayed
- 2,146die Medizinmedicine
- 2,147interessiertinterested; interests
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