schlagen
Meaning in English: to hit, to beat
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Ich muss noch Sahne für den Kuchen schlagen.
I still need to whip cream for the cake.
Forms of schlagen 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 schlagen are also in the top 5,000:
Mein Herz schlägt ganz schnell.
My heart is beating really fast.
Am Ende haben wir sie deutlich geschlagen.
In the end we beat them clearly.
Die Kirchturmuhr schlug genau zwölf.
The church clock struck exactly twelve.
How common is schlagen?
schlagen is number 3,039 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 29 times per million words — about once every 35,000 words. Its most frequent form is schlägt (#2,255).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 74% 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
- 3,035erreichtereached
- 3,036der Respektrespect
- 3,037fernerfurthermore, in addition
- 3,038berechtigtentitled, justified
- 3,039schlagento hit, to beat
- 3,040Vorstellungenideas, expectations; shows
- 3,041geklärtclarified, settled
- 3,042der Pfarrerpriest, pastor
- 3,043die Präsentationpresentation
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