sichern
Meaning in English: to secure, to back up
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Vergiss nicht, deine Daten zu sichern.
Don't forget to back up your data.
Forms of sichern 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 sichern are also in the top 5,000:
Hast du die Dateien gesichert?
Have you backed up the files?
Der Vertrag sichert uns die Wohnung für drei Jahre.
The contract secures the flat for us for three years.
How common is sichern?
sichern is number 1,386 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 66 times per million words — about once every 15,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 67% 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
- 1,382das Vertrauentrust, confidence
- 1,383die Sachething, matter
- 1,384bundesweitnationwide
- 1,385die Heimathome, homeland
- 1,386sichernto secure, to back up
- 1,387das Gebietarea, region, field
- 1,388entdeckento discover
- 1,389sinnvollsensible, useful, meaningful
- 1,390Unternehmensof the company (genitive)
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Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.