kommen
Meaning in English: to come
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Woher kommen Sie?
Where do you come from?
Forms of kommen 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 kommen are also in the top 5,000:
Wann kommt der nächste Bus?
When is the next bus coming?
Der Zug kam pünktlich an.
The train arrived on time.
Warum bist du so spät gekommen?
Why did you come so late?
Zum Geburtstag kamen fast alle Freunde.
Nearly all my friends came to the birthday party.
Warte kurz, ich komme gleich wieder.
Wait a moment, I'll be right back.
How common is kommen?
kommen is number 177 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 486 times per million words — about once every 2,100 words. Its most frequent form is kommt (#171).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 49% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
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- The 500 most common German words#177
- The 1,000 most common German words#177
- The 5,000 most common German words#177
- The most common German verbs#35
- German A1 vocabulary#127
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