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German verb · CEFR A2

legen

Meaning in English: to lay, to put

Rank 1,107 of 5,000verbLevel A24 forms in the list
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Example

Kannst du die Zeitung auf den Tisch legen?

Can you put the newspaper on the table?

Forms of legen 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 legen are also in the top 5,000:

legt#1,427
lays, putsA2

Sie legt das Baby vorsichtig ins Bett.
She carefully puts the baby to bed.

gelegt#1,883
laid, putA2

Ich habe die Zeitung auf den Tisch gelegt.
I put the newspaper on the table.

legte#2,360
laid, put (past)A2

Sie legte das Handy auf den Tisch.
She put the phone on the table.

How common is legen?

legen is number 1,107 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 82 times per million words — about once every 12,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 65% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.

Related words in the list

Words built on legen:

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 1,103niemandnobody, no one
  2. 1,104schreibtwrites
  3. 1,105der Vaterfather
  4. 1,106die Bühnestage
  5. 1,107legento lay, to put
  6. 1,108bildento form, to educate
  7. 1,109das Netznet, network, internet
  8. 1,110gutesgood
  9. 1,111der Satzsentence, set, rate

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