teilen
Meaning in English: share, divide
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Wollen wir uns eine Pizza teilen?
Shall we share a pizza?
Forms of teilen 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 teilen are also in the top 5,000:
Sie teilte den Kuchen in acht Stücke.
She cut the cake into eight pieces.
Sie teilt die Pizza in acht Stücke.
She cuts the pizza into eight slices.
How common is teilen?
teilen is number 797 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 112 times per million words — about once every 9,000 words. Its most frequent form is teilte (#781).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 62% 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
- 793die Nähevicinity, closeness
- 794größtenbiggest, largest
- 795persönlichenpersonal
- 796gewinnenwin
- 797teilenshare, divide
- 798der Abendevening
- 799notwendignecessary
- 800der Bürgermeistermayor
- 801wenigefew
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#797
- The 5,000 most common German words#797
- The most common German verbs#168
- German A2 vocabulary#191
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.