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German verb · CEFR B1

kämpfen

Meaning in English: to fight, to struggle

Rank 1,552 of 5,000verbLevel B12 forms in the list
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Example

Die Mannschaft muss um jeden Punkt kämpfen.

The team has to fight for every point.

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

kämpft#3,955
fights, strugglesB1

Sie kämpft seit Wochen mit einer Erkältung.
She's been struggling with a cold for weeks.

How common is kämpfen?

kämpfen is number 1,552 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 59 times per million words — about once every 17,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 68% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 1,548wirkento seem, to work, to have an effect
  2. 1,549diesmalthis time
  3. 1,550entwedereither (entweder … oder)
  4. 1,551die Postpost, mail, post office
  5. 1,552kämpfento fight, to struggle
  6. 1,553freiefree, vacant
  7. 1,554freutpleases, is glad (sich freuen)
  8. 1,555die Größesize, height
  9. 1,556der Inhaltcontent(s)

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