raten
Meaning in English: to advise; to guess
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Ich würde dir raten, früher loszufahren.
I'd advise you to set off earlier.
Forms of raten 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 raten are also in the top 5,000:
Die Ärztin rät mir, mehr zu schlafen.
The doctor advises me to sleep more.
How common is raten?
raten is number 3,691 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 23 times per million words — about once every 44,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,687schriftlichewritten
- 3,688Sportsof sport (genitive)
- 3,689fließento flow
- 3,690das Heimspielhome game
- 3,691ratento advise; to guess
- 3,692Erinnerungenmemories
- 3,693innovativeninnovative
- 3,694realreal
- 3,695rotred
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