lassen
Meaning in English: to let, to leave; to have done
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Wir lassen die Kinder heute länger aufbleiben.
We are letting the kids stay up later today.
Forms of lassen 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 lassen are also in the top 5,000:
Er lässt sein Auto in der Werkstatt reparieren.
He is having his car repaired at the garage.
Sie ließ ihre Tasche im Zug liegen.
She left her bag on the train.
Sie ließen uns lange warten.
They kept us waiting a long time.
Ich lasse das Fenster heute Nacht offen.
I'm leaving the window open tonight.
How common is lassen?
lassen is number 162 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 537 times per million words — about once every 1,900 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 49% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
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- The 1,000 most common German words#162
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- The most common German verbs#28
- German A2 vocabulary#26
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