gehören
Meaning in English: belong (to)
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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:
Wem gehört diese Jacke?
Whose jacket is this?
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
- 531das Internetinternet
- 532somitthus, therefore
- 533Monatenmonths (dative plural)
- 534eherrather, sooner
- 535gehörenbelong (to)
- 536der FebruarFebruary
- 537angebotenoffered
- 538die Saisonseason
- 539dennochnevertheless, still
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#535
- The 5,000 most common German words#535
- The most common German verbs#112
- German A2 vocabulary#136
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.