freuen
Meaning in English: (sich) be glad, look forward
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Wir freuen uns auf deinen Besuch.
We're looking forward to your visit.
Forms of freuen 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 freuen are also in the top 5,000:
Das freut mich sehr!
I'm very glad to hear that!
Ich freue mich auf das Wochenende.
I'm looking forward to the weekend.
How common is freuen?
freuen is number 583 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 151 times per million words — about once every 6,600 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 60% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
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In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#583
- The 5,000 most common German words#583
- The most common German verbs#120
- German A2 vocabulary#150
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.