folgen
Meaning in English: to follow
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Bitte folgen Sie mir.
Please follow me.
Forms of folgen 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 folgen are also in the top 5,000:
Der Hund folgt ihr überallhin.
The dog follows her everywhere.
Der Hund folgte uns bis nach Hause.
The dog followed us all the way home.
Wir sind einfach der Straße gefolgt.
We just followed the road.
Nach dem Essen folgten noch lange Gespräche.
Long conversations followed after the meal.
How common is folgen?
folgen is number 477 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 185 times per million words — about once every 5,400 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 58% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Related words in the list
Words built on folgen:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 473die Förderungfunding, support; promotion
- 474wichtigeimportant
- 475europäischenEuropean
- 476das Studiumstudies, university course
- 477folgento follow
- 478onlineonline
- 479ebensojust as, equally, likewise
- 480Aufgabentasks, exercises; duties
- 481euchyou (plural, acc./dat.)
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- German B1 vocabulary#86
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