scheinen
Meaning in English: to seem; to shine
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Die beiden scheinen sich gut zu verstehen.
The two of them seem to get on well.
Forms of scheinen 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 scheinen are also in the top 5,000:
Heute scheint endlich wieder die Sonne.
The sun is finally shining again today.
Den ganzen Tag schien die Sonne.
The sun shone all day.
How common is scheinen?
scheinen is number 3,746 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 22 times per million words — about once every 45,000 words. Its most frequent form is scheint (#910).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% 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
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- 3,743Richtlinienguidelines
- 3,744die Wärmewarmth, heat
- 3,745das Messerknife
- 3,746scheinento seem; to shine
- 3,747amerikanischenAmerican
- 3,748Verbindungenconnections, links
- 3,749gelegensituated, located; convenient
- 3,750geleitetled, managed, run
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