erzeugen
Meaning in English: to produce, to generate
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Solarzellen erzeugen Strom aus Sonnenlicht.
Solar cells generate electricity from sunlight.
Forms of erzeugen 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 erzeugen are also in the top 5,000:
Die Solaranlage erzeugt Strom für das ganze Haus.
The solar panels generate electricity for the whole house.
How common is erzeugen?
erzeugen is number 4,112 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 20 times per million words — about once every 50,000 words. Its most frequent form is erzeugt (#3,652).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% 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
- 4,108der Schneidertailor
- 4,109massivenmassive, solid, severe
- 4,110psychischenmental, psychological
- 4,111saßsat
- 4,112erzeugento produce, to generate
- 4,113vorgeworfenaccused (of), reproached
- 4,114weitergegebenpassed on
- 4,115Landkreisesdistrict (genitive)
- 4,116Gewinneprofits, winnings, prizes
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