German verb · CEFR A2

gehören

Meaning in English: belong (to)

Rank 535 of 5,000verbLevel A23 forms in the list
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Example

Diese Schlüssel gehören meiner Schwester.

These keys belong to my sister.

Forms of gehören 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 gehören are also in the top 5,000:

gehört#398
belongs; heardA2

Wem gehört diese Jacke?
Whose jacket is this?

gehörte#3,711
belongedA2

Das Haus gehörte früher meinen Großeltern.
The house used to belong to my grandparents.

How common is gehören?

gehören is number 535 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 169 times per million words — about once every 5,900 words. Its most frequent form is gehört (#398).

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 59% 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

  1. 531das Internetinternet
  2. 532somitthus, therefore
  3. 533Monatenmonths (dative plural)
  4. 534eherrather, sooner
  5. 535gehörenbelong (to)
  6. 536der FebruarFebruary
  7. 537angebotenoffered
  8. 538die Saisonseason
  9. 539dennochnevertheless, still

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