stehen
Meaning in English: to stand; to be (written)
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Wir mussten eine Stunde an der Kasse stehen.
We had to stand at the checkout for an hour.
Forms of stehen 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 stehen are also in the top 5,000:
Was steht in dem Brief?
What does the letter say?
Vor der Tür stand ein Paket.
There was a parcel outside the door.
Vor dem Kino standen viele Leute.
Lots of people were standing outside the cinema.
Ich stehe schon vor der Tür.
I'm already standing outside the door.
How common is stehen?
stehen is number 169 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 521 times per million words — about once every 1,900 words. Its most frequent form is steht (#141).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 49% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
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In these word lists
- The 500 most common German words#169
- The 1,000 most common German words#169
- The 5,000 most common German words#169
- The most common German verbs#31
- German A1 vocabulary#123
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