geschehen
Meaning in English: to happen, to occur
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Was ist hier eigentlich geschehen?
What actually happened here?
Forms of geschehen 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 geschehen are also in the top 5,000:
Was geschieht, wenn ich den Knopf drücke?
What happens if I press the button?
How common is geschehen?
geschehen is number 2,292 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 39 times per million words — about once every 25,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 72% 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
- 2,288engagiertcommitted, dedicated; involved
- 2,289die Ordnungorder, tidiness
- 2,290Nachbarnneighbours; neighbour (acc./dat.)
- 2,291Farbencolours; paints
- 2,292geschehento happen, to occur
- 2,293bekamgot, received (past)
- 2,294staatlichestate, government (inflected)
- 2,295wesentlichessential; considerably
- 2,296der Bewerberapplicant(s), candidate(s)
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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.