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German verb · CEFR B1

stammen

Meaning in English: come from, originate

Rank 2,716 of 5,000verbLevel B12 forms in the list
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Example

Meine Großeltern stammen aus Polen.

My grandparents come from Poland.

Forms of stammen 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 stammen are also in the top 5,000:

stammt#2,410
comes from, originatesB1

Das Rezept stammt von meiner Großmutter.
The recipe comes from my grandmother.

How common is stammen?

stammen is number 2,716 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 33 times per million words — about once every 30,000 words. Its most frequent form is stammt (#2,410).

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 73% 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

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  2. 2,713Klinikenclinics, hospitals
  3. 2,714Geschäfteshops; deals, business
  4. 2,715die Fluchtescape, flight
  5. 2,716stammencome from, originate
  6. 2,717teurermore expensive
  7. 2,718das Dorfvillage
  8. 2,719meistensmostly, usually
  9. 2,720einstellenhire; adjust, set; stop

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