kaufen
Meaning in English: to buy
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Wo kann man hier Briefmarken kaufen?
Where can you buy stamps around here?
Forms of kaufen 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 kaufen are also in the top 5,000:
Wir haben endlich ein neues Sofa gekauft.
We've finally bought a new sofa.
How common is kaufen?
kaufen is number 1,194 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.
Related words in the list
Words built on kaufen:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,190die Durchführungimplementation, carrying out
- 1,191prüfento check, to examine
- 1,192ladento load, to charge
- 1,193abgeschlossencompleted, locked
- 1,194kaufento buy
- 1,195vorgestelltintroduced, presented, imagined
- 1,196gleichensame
- 1,197hörento hear, to listen
- 1,198Beschäftigtenemployees, staff
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