geltend
Meaning in English: applicable; (geltend machen) to claim
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Sie will die Kosten bei der Steuer geltend machen.
She wants to claim the costs on her taxes.
Forms of geltend in the top 5,000
These forms of geltend are in the top 5,000 as well — German adds endings for gender, case and number:
Nach den geltenden Regeln ist das nicht erlaubt.
Under the current rules that isn't allowed.
How common is geltend?
geltend is number 3,609 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 23 times per million words — about once every 43,000 words. Its most frequent form is geltenden (#2,691).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% of the words in an ordinary German text. C1 means an advanced word, mostly met in formal or written German.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,605internationalerinternational
- 3,606die Richtlinieguideline, directive
- 3,607gelassencalm, relaxed, composed
- 3,608Jungsboys, guys (colloquial)
- 3,609geltendapplicable; (geltend machen) to claim
- 3,610das Kapitelchapter
- 3,611erlangento attain, to gain, to obtain
- 3,612körperlichephysical
- 3,613EnglandEngland
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,609
- The most common German adjectives#617
- German C1 vocabulary#202
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.