German verb · CEFR B1

folgen

Meaning in English: to follow

Rank 477 of 5,000verbLevel B15 forms in the list
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Example

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:

folgt#1,467
followsA2

Der Hund folgt ihr überallhin.
The dog follows her everywhere.

folgte#2,800
followedB1

Der Hund folgte uns bis nach Hause.
The dog followed us all the way home.

gefolgt#4,150
followedB1

Wir sind einfach der Straße gefolgt.
We just followed the road.

folgten#4,405
followedB1

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

  1. 473die Förderungfunding, support; promotion
  2. 474wichtigeimportant
  3. 475europäischenEuropean
  4. 476das Studiumstudies, university course
  5. 477folgento follow
  6. 478onlineonline
  7. 479ebensojust as, equally, likewise
  8. 480Aufgabentasks, exercises; duties
  9. 481euchyou (plural, acc./dat.)

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