schreiben
Meaning in English: write
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Ich muss heute noch eine E-Mail schreiben.
I still have to write an email today.
Forms of schreiben 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 schreiben are also in the top 5,000:
Meine Oma schreibt mir noch richtige Briefe.
My grandma still writes me real letters.
Sie schrieb ihm jeden Tag einen Brief.
She wrote him a letter every day.
Wie wird dein Name geschrieben?
How is your name spelled?
How common is schreiben?
schreiben is number 853 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 103 times per million words — about once every 9,700 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 63% 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
- 849der Filmfilm, movie
- 850erkennenrecognize, realize
- 851eingesetztused, deployed
- 852die Liebelove
- 853schreibenwrite
- 854arbeitetworks
- 855das Krankenhaushospital
- 856der Artikelarticle
- 857genommentaken
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#853
- The 5,000 most common German words#853
- The most common German verbs#179
- German A1 vocabulary#337
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.