schauen
Meaning in English: to look, to watch
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Wollen wir heute Abend einen Film schauen?
Shall we watch a film tonight?
Forms of schauen 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 schauen are also in the top 5,000:
Warum schaut er ständig auf die Uhr?
Why does he keep looking at the clock?
How common is schauen?
schauen is number 1,432 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 64 times per million words — about once every 16,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 68% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,428Städtencities, towns (dative)
- 1,429der Jobjob
- 1,430konkreteconcrete, specific
- 1,431die Vorbereitungpreparation
- 1,432schauento look, to watch
- 1,433Bürgerinnencitizens (female)
- 1,434die Serieseries
- 1,435der Arztdoctor
- 1,436besserebetter
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Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.