German verb · CEFR A2

stellen

Meaning in English: to put, to place (upright)

Rank 208 of 5,000verbLevel A25 forms in the list
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Example

Kannst du die Blumen auf den Tisch stellen?

Can you put the flowers on the table?

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

stellt#321
puts, places; asks (a question)A2

Das Kind stellt ständig neue Fragen.
The child constantly asks new questions.

gestellt#559
put, placed; asked (a question)A2

Wer hat diese Frage gestellt?
Who asked this question?

stellte#927
put, placed; asked (a question)A2

Sie stellte die Blumen auf den Tisch.
She put the flowers on the table.

stellten#2,456
put, placed; asked (past, plural)A2

Die Kinder stellten sehr viele Fragen.
The children asked a lot of questions.

How common is stellen?

stellen is number 208 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 403 times per million words — about once every 2,500 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 51% 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 stellen:

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 204einfachsimple, easy; simply, just
  2. 205machtmakes, does
  3. 206vierfour
  4. 207michme; myself
  5. 208stellento put, to place (upright)
  6. 209die Schuleschool
  7. 210erstefirst
  8. 211sagtsays
  9. 212beidenboth, the two

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