feststellen
Meaning in English: to find, to notice, to establish
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Der Arzt konnte nichts Ernstes feststellen.
The doctor couldn't find anything serious.
Forms of feststellen 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 feststellen are also in the top 5,000:
Ich habe festgestellt, dass mein Rad weg ist.
I noticed that my bike was gone.
How common is feststellen?
feststellen is number 3,718 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 23 times per million words — about once every 44,000 words. Its most frequent form is festgestellt (#1,926).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Related words in the list
feststellen is built from fest (firm, solid, fixed) + stellen (to put, to place (upright)).
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,714sonstigenother, remaining
- 3,715Hotelshotels
- 3,716orientiertoriented, geared (towards)
- 3,717die Bekämpfungfight (against), combating
- 3,718feststellento find, to notice, to establish
- 3,719der Sportlerathlete, sportsman
- 3,720jüngsteyoungest; latest, most recent
- 3,721Zügetrains; moves; features
- 3,722nachweisento prove, to provide evidence of
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