sehen
Meaning in English: to see
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Wir sehen uns morgen!
See you tomorrow!
Forms of sehen 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 sehen are also in the top 5,000:
Das Kleid sieht toll aus!
The dress looks great!
Hast du den neuen Film schon gesehen?
Have you seen the new film yet?
Plötzlich sah ich ein Reh im Garten.
Suddenly I saw a deer in the garden.
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Ich sehe dich morgen in der Schule.
I'll see you at school tomorrow.
How common is sehen?
sehen is number 239 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 360 times per million words — about once every 2,800 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 52% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
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- The 500 most common German words#239
- The 1,000 most common German words#239
- The 5,000 most common German words#239
- The most common German verbs#48
- German A1 vocabulary#153
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