funktionieren
Meaning in English: to work, to function
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Die Kopfhörer funktionieren nicht mehr richtig.
The headphones don't work properly anymore.
Forms of funktionieren 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 funktionieren are also in the top 5,000:
Die Kaffeemaschine funktioniert schon wieder nicht.
The coffee machine isn't working again.
How common is funktionieren?
funktionieren is number 2,330 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 39 times per million words — about once every 26,000 words. Its most frequent form is funktioniert (#1,042).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 72% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,326gesorgtensured, caused; taken care
- 2,327interessanteinteresting (inflected)
- 2,328ansonstenotherwise, apart from that
- 2,329der Großteilmajority, large part
- 2,330funktionierento work, to function
- 2,331habt(you all) have
- 2,332überprüftchecked, verified
- 2,333Teststests
- 2,334die Kampagnecampaign
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