gelangen
Meaning in English: to reach, to get (to)
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Über diese Treppe gelangen Sie zum Ausgang.
These stairs take you to the exit.
Forms of gelangen 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 gelangen are also in the top 5,000:
Über diese Treppe gelangt man direkt zum Bahnsteig.
These stairs take you straight to the platform.
How common is gelangen?
gelangen is number 2,118 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 43 times per million words — about once every 23,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 71% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,114die Technologietechnology
- 2,115Tagesof the day (genitive)
- 2,116dürftenmight, would be allowed; probably
- 2,117der Tischtable
- 2,118gelangento reach, to get (to)
- 2,119das Konzertconcert
- 2,120nahmentook (past)
- 2,121der Einblickinsight, glimpse
- 2,122die Szenescene
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Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.