gelten
Meaning in English: be valid, apply; be considered
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Diese Regeln gelten für alle.
These rules apply to everyone.
Forms of gelten 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 gelten are also in the top 5,000:
Das Ticket gilt nur für heute.
The ticket is only valid for today.
Er galt als bester Spieler der Mannschaft.
He was considered the team's best player.
Er sagte, das Angebot gelte nur bis Freitag.
He said the offer was only valid until Friday.
How common is gelten?
gelten is number 582 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 151 times per million words — about once every 6,600 words. Its most frequent form is gilt (#195).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 60% 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
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#582
- The 5,000 most common German words#582
- The most common German verbs#119
- German B1 vocabulary#122
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.