stoppen
Meaning in English: to stop
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Die Polizei konnte den Wagen rechtzeitig stoppen.
The police managed to stop the car in time.
Forms of stoppen 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 stoppen are also in the top 5,000:
Die Polizei hat den Wagen an der Grenze gestoppt.
The police stopped the car at the border.
How common is stoppen?
stoppen is number 4,241 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 19 times per million words — about once every 52,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,237erlaubento allow, to permit
- 4,238die Prioritätpriority
- 4,239die Evaluationevaluation
- 4,240das Gehaltsalary
- 4,241stoppento stop
- 4,242gekennzeichnetmarked, labelled
- 4,243langemlong (dative, as in seit langem)
- 4,244die Distanzdistance
- 4,245eueryour (plural, informal)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,241
- The most common German verbs#1,065
- German B1 vocabulary#1,378
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.