German verb · CEFR B2
getötet
Meaning in English: killed
This is a form of töten, which is not in the top 5,000 on its own.
Example
Bei dem Unfall wurde zum Glück niemand getötet.
Luckily, nobody was killed in the accident.
How common is getötet?
getötet is number 2,271 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 40 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. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,267das Einkommenincome
- 2,268die Informatikcomputer science
- 2,269die Hautskin
- 2,270höchstehighest, top (inflected)
- 2,271getötetkilled
- 2,272überraschendsurprising, unexpectedly
- 2,273vielerof many (genitive)
- 2,274Einblickeinsights, glimpses
- 2,275der Ansatzapproach; beginning
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