passen
Meaning in English: fit, suit
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Die Schuhe passen mir leider nicht.
Unfortunately the shoes don't fit me.
Forms of passen 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 passen are also in the top 5,000:
Passt dir Freitag um acht?
Does Friday at eight suit you?
How common is passen?
passen is number 2,544 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 35 times per million words — about once every 28,000 words. Its most frequent form is passt (#1,520).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 73% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,540die Kündigungnotice, termination, dismissal
- 2,541aktiveactive
- 2,542der Hinblickregard (im Hinblick auf)
- 2,543die Bibliotheklibrary
- 2,544passenfit, suit
- 2,545der Pkwcar (passenger vehicle)
- 2,546sichergestelltensured; seized
- 2,547gabengave (past, plural)
- 2,548RusslandsRussia's (genitive)
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