German verb · CEFR B2

geraten

Meaning in English: got (into); advised

Rank 1,861 of 5,000verbLevel B22 forms in the list
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Example

Auf dem Heimweg sind wir in einen Stau geraten.

On the way home we got stuck in a traffic jam.

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

geriet#4,217
got (into), ended upB2

Auf dem Heimweg geriet sie in einen Stau.
On the way home she got stuck in a traffic jam.

How common is geraten?

geraten is number 1,861 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 49 times per million words — about once every 20,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 70% 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

  1. 1,857früherenformer, earlier
  2. 1,858beendetfinished, ended
  3. 1,859Ressourcenresources
  4. 1,860Dienstleistungenservices
  5. 1,861geratengot (into); advised
  6. 1,862die Bewertungrating, review, assessment
  7. 1,863gemeldetreported, registered
  8. 1,864der Abstanddistance, gap
  9. 1,865fandenfound; thought

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