German verb · CEFR B1

messen

Meaning in English: to measure

Rank 2,890 of 5,000verbLevel B12 forms in the list

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Example

Kannst du bitte mal meine Temperatur messen?
Can you take my temperature, please?

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

gemessen#3,813

measuredB1

Hast du schon Fieber gemessen?
Have you taken your temperature yet?

How common is messen?

messen is number 2,890 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 30 times per million words — about once every 33,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 74% 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

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2,888die Newsnews
2,889ähnlichesimilar
2,890messento measure
2,891das Stadionstadium
2,892direktedirect
2,893kostenlosefree (of charge)
2,894die Geschwindigkeitspeed

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