nehmen
Meaning in English: to take
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Wir nehmen zwei Stück Kuchen, bitte.
We'll take two pieces of cake, please.
Forms of nehmen 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 nehmen are also in the top 5,000:
Sie nimmt jeden Morgen den Bus.
She takes the bus every morning.
Wer hat meinen Stift genommen?
Who took my pen?
Sie nahm den letzten Bus nach Hause.
She took the last bus home.
Wir nahmen den letzten Zug nach Hause.
We took the last train home.
Ich nehme die Suppe und ein Wasser.
I'll have the soup and a water.
How common is nehmen?
nehmen is number 326 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 264 times per million words — about once every 3,800 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 54% 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 nehmen:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 322zunächstfirst, at first
- 323allerof all (genitive plural)
- 324die Unterstützungsupport
- 325unserenour (acc. masc., dat. pl.)
- 326nehmento take
- 327bleibtstays, remains
- 328die Kostencosts, expenses
- 329siehtsees; looks
- 330lernento learn, to study
In these word lists
- The 500 most common German words#326
- The 1,000 most common German words#326
- The 5,000 most common German words#326
- The most common German verbs#65
- German A1 vocabulary#190
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.