prüfen
Meaning in English: to check, to examine
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Bitte prüfen Sie Ihre Angaben noch einmal.
Please check your details again.
Forms of prüfen 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 prüfen are also in the top 5,000:
Hast du die Rechnung genau geprüft?
Did you check the bill carefully?
Die Lehrerin prüft gerade die Hausaufgaben.
The teacher is checking the homework right now.
How common is prüfen?
prüfen is number 1,191 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 76 times per million words — about once every 13,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 66% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Related words in the list
Words built on prüfen:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,187das Verhaltenbehaviour
- 1,188technischetechnical
- 1,189ehemaligeformer
- 1,190die Durchführungimplementation, carrying out
- 1,191prüfento check, to examine
- 1,192ladento load, to charge
- 1,193abgeschlossencompleted, locked
- 1,194kaufento buy
- 1,195vorgestelltintroduced, presented, imagined
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Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.