fortsetzen
Meaning in English: to continue, to resume
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Nach der Pause wollen wir das Gespräch fortsetzen.
We'd like to continue the conversation after the break.
Forms of fortsetzen 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 fortsetzen are also in the top 5,000:
Nach der Pause wird das Spiel fortgesetzt.
The match will be resumed after the break.
How common is fortsetzen?
fortsetzen is number 4,995 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 16 times per million words — about once every 63,000 words. Its most frequent form is fortgesetzt (#3,780).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 79% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Related words in the list
fortsetzen is built from fort (away, gone; onward) + setzen (to set, to put; sich setzen = sit down).
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,991einsehento see, to accept; to inspect
- 4,992das Objektobject; property
- 4,993das Darlehenloan
- 4,994Debattendebates
- 4,995fortsetzento continue, to resume
- 4,996bekamengot, received (past plural)
- 4,997Persönlichkeitenpersonalities, figures
- 4,998der Sexsex
- 4,999deutlicherclearer, more clearly
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,995
- The most common German verbs#1,246
- German B2 vocabulary#1,237
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.