scheitern
Meaning in English: to fail
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Am Ende wird der Plan am Geld scheitern.
In the end the plan will fail for lack of money.
Forms of scheitern 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 scheitern are also in the top 5,000:
Unser erster Versuch ist leider gescheitert.
Unfortunately our first attempt failed.
How common is scheitern?
scheitern is number 4,225 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 19 times per million words — about once every 52,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,221die Geschäftsstelleoffice, branch office
- 4,222barin cash
- 4,223teilgenommentaken part, participated
- 4,224der Protestprotest
- 4,225scheiternto fail
- 4,226Speisendishes, food
- 4,227Führungskräftemanagers, executives
- 4,228Filmenfilms (dative)
- 4,229der Tipptip, hint
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