führen
Meaning in English: to lead; to run (a business)
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Dieser Weg soll direkt zum See führen.
This path is supposed to lead straight to the lake.
Forms of führen 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 führen are also in the top 5,000:
Diese Straße führt direkt ins Zentrum.
This road leads straight to the centre.
Das Restaurant wird von zwei Schwestern geführt.
The restaurant is run by two sisters.
Der Weg führte direkt zum See.
The path led straight to the lake.
Die Spuren führten direkt zum Wald.
The tracks led straight to the forest.
How common is führen?
führen is number 422 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 208 times per million words — about once every 4,800 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 57% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
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