kennenlernen
Meaning in English: to get to know, to meet
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Ich möchte deine Eltern gern kennenlernen.
I'd like to meet your parents.
Forms of kennenlernen 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 kennenlernen are also in the top 5,000:
Es freut mich, Sie kennenzulernen.
Nice to meet you.
How common is kennenlernen?
kennenlernen is number 2,907 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 30 times per million words — about once every 33,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 74% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Related words in the list
kennenlernen is built from kennen (know (be familiar with)) + lernen (to learn, to study).
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,903die Herkunftorigin, background
- 2,904genügendenough, sufficient
- 2,905vorgelegtpresented, submitted
- 2,906glaubtbelieves, thinks
- 2,907kennenlernento get to know, to meet
- 2,908Bürgerncitizens (dative plural)
- 2,909verarbeitento process, to deal with
- 2,910Journalistenjournalists
- 2,911die Sammlungcollection
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Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.