hängen
Meaning in English: to hang
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Wo sollen wir das Bild hängen?
Where should we hang the picture?
Forms of hängen 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 hängen are also in the top 5,000:
Das hängt vom Wetter ab.
That depends on the weather.
How common is hängen?
hängen is number 3,071 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 28 times per million words — about once every 35,000 words. Its most frequent form is hängt (#1,579).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 75% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,067hörthears, listens
- 3,068das Bündnisalliance
- 3,069normalnormal, usual
- 3,070der Leserreader(s)
- 3,071hängento hang
- 3,072das Abiturschool-leaving exam (A levels)
- 3,073fliegento fly
- 3,074solltestshould (you, informal)
- 3,075mitgeteiltinformed, communicated
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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.