steigen
Meaning in English: to rise, to climb, to get (in/on)
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Im Sommer steigen die Preise für Flüge.
In summer, flight prices go up.
Forms of steigen 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 steigen are also in the top 5,000:
Am Nachmittag steigt die Temperatur auf 30 Grad.
In the afternoon the temperature rises to 30 degrees.
Die Mieten sind stark gestiegen.
Rents have risen sharply.
Sie stieg in den Bus und winkte uns zu.
She got on the bus and waved to us.
Im Winter stiegen die Heizkosten stark.
In winter heating costs rose sharply.
How common is steigen?
steigen is number 1,469 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 63 times per million words — about once every 16,000 words. Its most frequent form is steigt (#1,268).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 68% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Related words in the list
Words built on steigen:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,465größerebigger, larger
- 1,466Entwicklungendevelopments
- 1,467folgtfollows
- 1,468organisiertorganised, organises
- 1,469steigento rise, to climb, to get (in/on)
- 1,470teilnehmendenparticipating
- 1,471der Zweckpurpose
- 1,472das Rennenrace
- 1,473der Wechselchange, switch
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