orientieren
Meaning in English: to orient, to get one's bearings
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In der fremden Stadt konnte ich mich kaum orientieren.
I could hardly find my way around the unfamiliar city.
Forms of orientieren 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 orientieren are also in the top 5,000:
Der Kurs ist stark an der Praxis orientiert.
The course is strongly practice-oriented.
How common is orientieren?
orientieren is number 3,125 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 28 times per million words — about once every 36,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 75% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,121feiertecelebrated
- 3,122vorhandenenexisting, available
- 3,123die Stellungposition, stance
- 3,124ungefährabout, approximately
- 3,125orientierento orient, to get one's bearings
- 3,126Fächersubjects; compartments
- 3,127das Grundstückplot of land, property
- 3,128die Pressemitteilungpress release
- 3,129das Maßmeasure, degree, extent
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