schützen
Meaning in English: protect
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Die Mütze soll dich vor der Kälte schützen.
The hat is meant to protect you from the cold.
Forms of schützen 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 schützen are also in the top 5,000:
Dein Konto ist mit einem Passwort geschützt.
Your account is protected by a password.
Sonnencreme schützt die Haut vor Sonnenbrand.
Sun cream protects the skin from sunburn.
How common is schützen?
schützen is number 947 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 94 times per million words — about once every 11,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 64% 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
- 943das Mädchengirl
- 944laufenrun, walk
- 945passierthappened; happens
- 946die Initiativeinitiative
- 947schützenprotect
- 948bestimmtecertain, particular
- 949die Erfahrungexperience
- 950die Verwaltungadministration
- 951genugenough
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#947
- The 5,000 most common German words#947
- The most common German verbs#204
- German B1 vocabulary#247
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.