stecken
Meaning in English: to put, to stick; to be (stuck)
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Wir stecken seit einer Stunde im Stau.
We've been stuck in traffic for an hour.
Forms of stecken 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 stecken are also in the top 5,000:
Der Schlüssel steckt noch in der Tür.
The key is still in the door.
How common is stecken?
stecken is number 3,150 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 27 times per million words — about once every 36,000 words. Its most frequent form is steckt (#1,850).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 75% 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
- 3,146unterschiedlicherdifferent, various (inflected)
- 3,147kontrolliertchecked, controlled
- 3,148versprechento promise
- 3,149entnehmento take (from), to gather (from)
- 3,150steckento put, to stick; to be (stuck)
- 3,151bearbeitento process, to edit, to work on
- 3,152definiertdefined
- 3,153Projektesof the project (genitive)
- 3,154der Wählervoter(s)
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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.