richten
Meaning in English: to direct, to address; to judge
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Bitte richten Sie Ihre Fragen an das Sekretariat.
Please address your questions to the office.
Forms of richten 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 richten are also in the top 5,000:
Das Angebot richtet sich an junge Familien.
The offer is aimed at young families.
How common is richten?
richten is number 1,867 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 49 times per million words — about once every 20,000 words. Its most frequent form is richtet (#1,160).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 70% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Related words in the list
Words built on richten:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,863gemeldetreported, registered
- 1,864der Abstanddistance, gap
- 1,865fandenfound; thought
- 1,866der Studiengangdegree programme, course
- 1,867richtento direct, to address; to judge
- 1,868meintthinks, means, says
- 1,869Modellemodels
- 1,870mehrfachseveral times, repeatedly
- 1,871Technologientechnologies
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