German verb · CEFR B1
gegründet
Meaning in English: founded
This is a form of gründen, which is not in the top 5,000 on its own.
Example
Mein Onkel hat die Firma vor dreißig Jahren gegründet.
My uncle founded the company thirty years ago.
How common is gegründet?
gegründet is number 1,459 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 63 times per million words — about once every 16,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 68% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,455verfügbaravailable
- 1,456höherhigher
- 1,457der Kaufpurchase
- 1,458beruflichenprofessional, vocational
- 1,459gegründetfounded
- 1,460teilspartly
- 1,461wärenwould be, were
- 1,462der Künstlerartist
- 1,463der Angriffattack
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