German verb · CEFR B2

identifizieren

Meaning in English: to identify

Rank 3,535 of 5,000verbLevel B22 forms in the list
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Example

Die Polizei konnte den Täter schnell identifizieren.

The police were able to identify the culprit quickly.

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

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Die Ärzte haben die Ursache endlich identifiziert.
The doctors have finally identified the cause.

How common is identifizieren?

identifizieren is number 3,535 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 24 times per million words — about once every 42,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% 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. 3,531Technikentechniques
  2. 3,532setztenset, put; sat down (past, plural)
  3. 3,533das Magazinmagazine
  4. 3,534Ebenenlevels; plains
  5. 3,535identifizierento identify
  6. 3,536der Mastermaster's degree
  7. 3,537Hallohello, hi
  8. 3,538untergebrachtaccommodated, housed; stored
  9. 3,539die Tatsachefact

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