leiten
Meaning in English: to lead, to manage
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Wer wird das neue Projekt leiten?
Who is going to lead the new project?
Forms of leiten 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 leiten are also in the top 5,000:
Frau Weber leitet die Abteilung seit zehn Jahren.
Ms Weber has run the department for ten years.
Die Firma wird von zwei Schwestern geleitet.
The company is run by two sisters.
How common is leiten?
leiten is number 3,917 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 47,000 words. Its most frequent form is leitet (#2,498).
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
- 3,913entscheidendendecisive, crucial
- 3,914der Reifentyre
- 3,915das Dokumentdocument
- 3,916die Auflageedition, condition, requirement
- 3,917leitento lead, to manage
- 3,918die Spielzeitseason, playing time
- 3,919kündigento quit, to cancel, to give notice
- 3,920allzuall too, too
- 3,921die Flexibilitätflexibility
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