kontrollieren
Meaning in English: to check, to control
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Im Zug kontrollieren sie heute die Fahrkarten.
They're checking tickets on the train today.
Forms of kontrollieren 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 kontrollieren are also in the top 5,000:
Im Zug wurden unsere Fahrkarten kontrolliert.
Our tickets were checked on the train.
How common is kontrollieren?
kontrollieren is number 4,028 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 21 times per million words — about once every 48,000 words. Its most frequent form is kontrolliert (#3,147).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% 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
- 4,024verstorbenendeceased, late
- 4,025Gerichtedishes, courts
- 4,026unbekannterunknown, unfamiliar
- 4,027meldetereported
- 4,028kontrollierento check, to control
- 4,029beruflichprofessional, for work
- 4,030befreitfreed, exempt
- 4,031draufon it (colloquial)
- 4,032der Codecode
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,028
- The most common German verbs#1,013
- German B1 vocabulary#1,300
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.