German verb · CEFR A2

reichen

Meaning in English: to be enough, to pass, to reach

Rank 1,755 of 5,000verbLevel A22 forms in the list
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Example

Zwei Pizzen reichen für uns vier.

Two pizzas are enough for the four of us.

Forms of reichen 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 reichen are also in the top 5,000:

reicht#1,245
is enough, hands, reachesA2

Danke, das reicht mir völlig.
Thanks, that's plenty for me.

How common is reichen?

reichen is number 1,755 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 52 times per million words — about once every 19,000 words. Its most frequent form is reicht (#1,245).

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 70% 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

  1. 1,751beitragento contribute
  2. 1,752Investitioneninvestments
  3. 1,753gelingtsucceeds, works out
  4. 1,754die Übersichtoverview
  5. 1,755reichento be enough, to pass, to reach
  6. 1,756eigenesown
  7. 1,757die Kommissioncommission, committee
  8. 1,758das Managementmanagement
  9. 1,759die Nachrichtmessage, news

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