passieren
Meaning in English: to happen
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So etwas kann jedem mal passieren.
That kind of thing can happen to anyone.
Forms of passieren 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 passieren are also in the top 5,000:
Was ist denn hier passiert?
What on earth happened here?
How common is passieren?
passieren is number 2,243 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 40 times per million words — about once every 25,000 words. Its most frequent form is passiert (#945).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 72% 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
- 2,239getandone (past participle)
- 2,240Hilfenaid, help(s), assistance
- 2,241die Anzeigead; (police) report; display
- 2,242die Begleitungcompany, escort; accompaniment
- 2,243passierento happen
- 2,244reagiertreacted, responded
- 2,245ansto the, at the (an + das)
- 2,246Produktenproducts (dative plural)
- 2,247parallelparallel; at the same time
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