German verb · CEFR A2
sparen
Meaning in English: to save
Example
Wir sparen für ein neues Auto.
We're saving for a new car.
How common is sparen?
sparen is number 1,716 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 53 times per million words — about once every 19,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 69% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,712die Grenzeborder, limit
- 1,713stolzproud
- 1,714aufmerksamattentive, alert
- 1,715die Intelligenzintelligence
- 1,716sparento save
- 1,717der Zustandcondition, state
- 1,718historischenhistoric(al)
- 1,719kleinersmaller; small
- 1,720die Einwilligungconsent
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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.