sinken
Meaning in English: to sink, to fall
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Im Winter sinken die Temperaturen stark.
In winter temperatures drop sharply.
Forms of sinken 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 sinken are also in the top 5,000:
Die Benzinpreise sind endlich gesunken.
Petrol prices have finally fallen.
In der Nacht sinkt die Temperatur unter null.
At night the temperature drops below zero.
How common is sinken?
sinken is number 4,161 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 20 times per million words — about once every 50,000 words. Its most frequent form is gesunken (#4,134).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,157Momentemoments
- 4,158leichtenlight, easy, slight
- 4,159kreativencreative
- 4,160die Verteilungdistribution, allocation
- 4,161sinkento sink, to fall
- 4,162die Quarantänequarantine
- 4,163zeichnento draw
- 4,164das Logologo
- 4,165Partiengames, matches
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,161
- The most common German verbs#1,050
- German B1 vocabulary#1,352
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.