fassen
Meaning in English: to grasp, to hold, to take in
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Ich kann es kaum fassen!
I can hardly believe it!
Forms of fassen 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 fassen are also in the top 5,000:
Die Polizei hat den Dieb noch am Abend gefasst.
The police caught the thief that same evening.
How common is fassen?
fassen is number 4,302 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 19 times per million words — about once every 53,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,298das Originaloriginal
- 4,299überschrittenexceeded, crossed
- 4,300Infektioneninfections
- 4,301komplexencomplex
- 4,302fassento grasp, to hold, to take in
- 4,303wohntlives, resides
- 4,304das Gehirnbrain
- 4,305verschwindento disappear, to vanish
- 4,306tollgreat, fantastic
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Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.