fördern
Meaning in English: promote, support, fund
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Die Schule möchte begabte Kinder besonders fördern.
The school wants to give gifted children extra support.
Forms of fördern 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 fördern are also in the top 5,000:
Das Projekt wird von der Stadt gefördert.
The project is funded by the city.
Die Stadt fördert Sportvereine für Kinder.
The city supports sports clubs for children.
How common is fördern?
fördern is number 806 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 110 times per million words — about once every 9,100 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 62% 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
- 802gesamtenentire, whole
- 803die Studiestudy
- 804teilweisepartly, in part
- 805Hinweisetips, notes, clues
- 806fördernpromote, support, fund
- 807die Appapp
- 808entscheidendecide
- 809die Mannschaftteam
- 810der Zusammenhangconnection, context
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#806
- The 5,000 most common German words#806
- The most common German verbs#169
- German B2 vocabulary#75
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.