fordern
Meaning in English: to demand, to call for
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Die Eltern fordern mehr Lehrer für die Schule.
The parents are calling for more teachers at the school.
Forms of fordern 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 fordern are also in the top 5,000:
Der Chef fordert mehr Einsatz von allen.
The boss demands more effort from everyone.
Im neuen Job fühle ich mich richtig gefordert.
I feel really challenged in my new job.
Der Kunde forderte sein Geld zurück.
The customer demanded his money back.
How common is fordern?
fordern is number 1,730 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 53 times per million words — about once every 19,000 words. Its most frequent form is fordert (#1,040).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 69% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,726das Trainingtraining, practice
- 1,727entdecktdiscovered
- 1,728erhieltreceived
- 1,729die Inflationinflation
- 1,730fordernto demand, to call for
- 1,731der Gastguest
- 1,732modernenmodern
- 1,733vorstellento introduce, to imagine
- 1,734das Fensterwindow
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