schließen
Meaning in English: to close, to shut
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Die Geschäfte schließen um acht Uhr.
The shops close at eight o'clock.
Forms of schließen 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 schließen are also in the top 5,000:
Am Sonntag ist die Apotheke geschlossen.
The pharmacy is closed on Sunday.
Sie schloss leise die Tür hinter sich.
She quietly closed the door behind her.
Die Apotheke schließt heute schon um sechs.
The pharmacy closes at six today.
How common is schließen?
schließen is number 1,545 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 60 times per million words — about once every 17,000 words. Its most frequent form is geschlossen (#1,159).
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
- 1,541Klassenclasses, grades
- 1,542vollerfull of, fuller
- 1,543SchweizerSwiss, Swiss person
- 1,544der Umfangextent, scope, size
- 1,545schließento close, to shut
- 1,546setzteset, put, sat (oneself) down
- 1,547der Auftrittappearance, performance
- 1,548wirkento seem, to work, to have an effect
- 1,549diesmalthis time
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