starten
Meaning in English: to start, to take off
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Wir starten morgen ganz früh in den Urlaub.
We're setting off on holiday very early tomorrow.
Forms of starten 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 starten are also in the top 5,000:
Der Kurs startet nächsten Montag.
The course starts next Monday.
Das Flugzeug ist pünktlich gestartet.
The plane took off on time.
Das Konzert startete pünktlich um acht.
The concert started on time at eight.
How common is starten?
starten is number 1,118 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 80 times per million words — about once every 12,000 words. Its most frequent form is startet (#1,095).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 65% 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
- 1,114durchausquite, definitely, by all means
- 1,115vorbeiover, past, by
- 1,116umfasstcomprises, includes
- 1,117die Anmeldungregistration, sign-up
- 1,118startento start, to take off
- 1,119gesetztset, put, placed
- 1,120das Stückpiece, play
- 1,121verhindernto prevent
- 1,122der Standortlocation, site
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