laufenden
Meaning in English: current, ongoing
This is a form of laufend, which is not in the top 5,000 on its own — its other forms in the list are laufende.
Example
Die laufenden Kosten für das Auto sind hoch.
The running costs of the car are high.
How common is laufenden?
laufenden is number 1,506 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 61 times per million words — about once every 16,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 68% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Related words in the list
laufenden is built from laufen (run, walk) + der Lauf (run, race; course (of)).
Next to it in the frequency list
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,506
- The most common German adjectives#211
- German B2 vocabulary#218
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.