sammeln
Meaning in English: to collect, to gather
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Im Wald sammeln wir Pilze.
We collect mushrooms in the forest.
Forms of sammeln 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 sammeln are also in the top 5,000:
Die Kinder haben im Wald Pilze gesammelt.
The children picked mushrooms in the forest.
How common is sammeln?
sammeln is number 1,578 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 58 times per million words — about once every 17,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 69% 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
- 1,574stattdesseninstead
- 1,575anbietento offer
- 1,576erfülltfulfilled, met
- 1,577konkretconcrete, specific(ally)
- 1,578sammelnto collect, to gather
- 1,579hängthangs, depends (on)
- 1,580seitdemsince then; since
- 1,581vorbereitetprepared
- 1,582daraufhinthereupon, as a result
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