laufen
Meaning in English: run, walk
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Wir können auch zum Bahnhof laufen.
We can also walk to the station.
Forms of laufen 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 laufen are also in the top 5,000:
Was läuft heute Abend im Fernsehen?
What's on TV tonight?
Der Film lief gestern im Fernsehen.
The film was on TV yesterday.
How common is laufen?
laufen is number 944 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 94 times per million words — about once every 11,000 words. Its most frequent form is läuft (#725).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 64% 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 laufen:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 940sorgtensures, provides; takes care
- 941die Pandemiepandemic
- 942verwendenuse
- 943das Mädchengirl
- 944laufenrun, walk
- 945passierthappened; happens
- 946die Initiativeinitiative
- 947schützenprotect
- 948bestimmtecertain, particular
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#944
- The 5,000 most common German words#944
- The most common German verbs#202
- German A1 vocabulary#349
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.