liegen
Meaning in English: to lie; to be located
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Am Wochenende liegen wir faul am Strand.
At the weekend we lie lazily on the beach.
Forms of liegen 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 liegen are also in the top 5,000:
Das Hotel liegt direkt am Strand.
The hotel is right on the beach.
Das Handy lag die ganze Zeit auf dem Tisch.
The phone was on the table the whole time.
Die Schlüssel lagen die ganze Zeit auf dem Tisch.
The keys were on the table the whole time.
Ich liege noch im Bett.
I'm still lying in bed.
How common is liegen?
liegen is number 444 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 197 times per million words — about once every 5,100 words. Its most frequent form is liegt (#216).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 57% 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 liegen:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 440verschiedenevarious, different
- 441der JanuarJanuary
- 442bringento bring, to take
- 443zuvorbefore, previously
- 444liegento lie; to be located
- 445der MittwochWednesday
- 446das Programmprogramme; program
- 447musstehad to
- 448hättenwould have (we/they)
In these word lists
- The 500 most common German words#444
- The 1,000 most common German words#444
- The 5,000 most common German words#444
- The most common German verbs#94
- German A1 vocabulary#243
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