sitzen
Meaning in English: to sit
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Wollen wir draußen sitzen?
Shall we sit outside?
Forms of sitzen 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 sitzen are also in the top 5,000:
Die Katze sitzt schon wieder auf dem Sofa.
The cat is sitting on the sofa again.
Die Katze saß den ganzen Tag am Fenster.
The cat sat at the window all day.
How common is sitzen?
sitzen is number 1,768 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 52 times per million words — about once every 19,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 70% 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
- 1,764gestiegenrisen, increased
- 1,765die Fakultätfaculty (university)
- 1,766vielfältigediverse, varied
- 1,767der Gegneropponent(s)
- 1,768sitzento sit
- 1,769sichtbarvisible
- 1,770die Ausgabeedition, issue; expense
- 1,771extremextreme(ly)
- 1,772das Werkwork, factory
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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.