German verb · CEFR A2

stimmen

Meaning in English: to be right, to vote

Rank 1,008 of 5,000verbLevel A22 forms in the list
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Example

Die Zahlen auf der Rechnung stimmen nicht.

The figures on the bill aren't right.

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

stimmt#2,636
is right, is trueA1

Stimmt, das hatte ich ganz vergessen.
True, I'd completely forgotten that.

How common is stimmen?

stimmen is number 1,008 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 89 times per million words — about once every 11,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 64% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 1,004losoff, going on, wrong
  2. 1,005nämlichnamely, you see, because
  3. 1,006entschiedendecided
  4. 1,007die Verarbeitungprocessing
  5. 1,008stimmento be right, to vote
  6. 1,009gezeigtshown
  7. 1,010achtento pay attention, to respect
  8. 1,011die Ausstellungexhibition
  9. 1,012der Kilometerkilometre

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