kennen
Meaning in English: know (be familiar with)
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Kennen Sie hier ein gutes Restaurant?
Do you know a good restaurant around here?
Forms of kennen 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 kennen are also in the top 5,000:
Kennt ihr ein gutes Restaurant hier?
Do you know a good restaurant here?
How common is kennen?
kennen is number 721 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 126 times per million words — about once every 7,900 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 61% 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 kennen:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 717fandfound; thought (opinion)
- 718bereitready, prepared, willing
- 719der Umganghandling, dealing (with)
- 720die Stiftungfoundation (charity)
- 721kennenknow (be familiar with)
- 722die Praxispractice; doctor's surgery
- 723der Bürgercitizen(s)
- 724demnachaccordingly, so, according to that
- 725läuftruns, walks; is on (TV)
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#721
- The 5,000 most common German words#721
- The most common German verbs#153
- German A1 vocabulary#314
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.