stellen
Meaning in English: to put, to place (upright)
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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:
Das Kind stellt ständig neue Fragen.
The child constantly asks new questions.
Wer hat diese Frage gestellt?
Who asked this question?
Sie stellte die Blumen auf den Tisch.
She put the flowers on the table.
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.
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- The 500 most common German words#208
- The 1,000 most common German words#208
- The 5,000 most common German words#208
- The most common German verbs#41
- German A2 vocabulary#42
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.