hören
Meaning in English: to hear, to listen
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Beim Kochen hören wir gern Radio.
We like listening to the radio while cooking.
Forms of hören 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 hören are also in the top 5,000:
Mein Opa hört nicht mehr so gut.
My grandpa can't hear so well any more.
How common is hören?
hören is number 1,197 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 76 times per million words — about once every 13,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 66% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,193abgeschlossencompleted, locked
- 1,194kaufento buy
- 1,195vorgestelltintroduced, presented, imagined
- 1,196gleichensame
- 1,197hörento hear, to listen
- 1,198Beschäftigtenemployees, staff
- 1,199gewonnenwon
- 1,200besuchento visit, to attend
- 1,201unbedingtabsolutely, by all means
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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.