German verb · CEFR A1
regnen
Meaning in English: to rain
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Weather in German list.
Example
Es fängt gleich an zu regnen.
It's about to start raining.
How common is regnen?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, regnen appears 3.1 times per million words — about once every 320,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
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