German verb · CEFR A2

füllen

Meaning in English: to fill

Rank 3,939 of 5,000verbLevel A22 forms in the list
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Example

Kannst du die Flaschen mit Wasser füllen?

Can you fill the bottles with water?

Forms of füllen 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 füllen are also in the top 5,000:

gefüllt#4,625
filled, stuffedB1

Der Kühlschrank ist wieder gut gefüllt.
The fridge is well stocked again.

How common is füllen?

füllen is number 3,939 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 21 times per million words — about once every 47,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 3,935Einheitenunits
  2. 3,936grundlegendefundamental, basic
  3. 3,937befragtquestioned, surveyed
  4. 3,938wiesowhy
  5. 3,939füllento fill
  6. 3,940die Autorinauthor, writer (female)
  7. 3,941das Budgetbudget
  8. 3,942gerettetsaved, rescued
  9. 3,943vorhandeneexisting, available

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