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German verb · CEFR B2

investieren

Meaning in English: invest

Rank 2,477 of 5,000verbLevel B22 forms in the list
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Example

Wir sollten mehr Geld in Bildung investieren.

We should invest more money in education.

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

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investedB2

Wir haben viel Zeit in das Projekt investiert.
We've invested a lot of time in the project.

How common is investieren?

investieren is number 2,477 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 36 times per million words — about once every 27,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 73% 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. 2,473Inhaltencontents (dative plural)
  2. 2,474der Schauspieleractor
  3. 2,475freue(I) am glad, look forward (sich)
  4. 2,476freiwilligenvoluntary, volunteer
  5. 2,477investiereninvest
  6. 2,478erheblichconsiderable, considerably
  7. 2,479gerechtfair, just
  8. 2,480ließenlet, left, had done (past, pl.)
  9. 2,481gegebenenfallsif necessary, where applicable

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