German verb · CEFR A1
malen
Meaning in English: to paint
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Hobbies and sport in German list.
Example
Meine Tochter will ein Bild malen.
My daughter wants to paint a picture.
How common is malen?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, malen appears 11 times per million words — about once every 92,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
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