fallen
Meaning in English: to fall, to drop
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Pass auf, dass die Gläser nicht fallen!
Be careful the glasses don't fall!
Forms of fallen 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 fallen are also in the top 5,000:
Mathe fällt mir schwer.
I find maths hard.
Das Glas fiel mir aus der Hand.
The glass fell out of my hand.
Im Herbst fielen die Blätter von den Bäumen.
In autumn the leaves fell from the trees.
How common is fallen?
fallen is number 1,083 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 84 times per million words — about once every 12,000 words. Its most frequent form is fällt (#885).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 65% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Related words in the list
Words built on fallen:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,079das Publikumaudience, public
- 1,080ändernto change
- 1,081die Zeitungnewspaper
- 1,082außerhalboutside (of)
- 1,083fallento fall, to drop
- 1,084der Vertragcontract
- 1,085der Vermieterlandlord
- 1,086verpflichtetobliged, committed
- 1,087der Toddeath
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