teilnehmen
Meaning in English: to take part
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Wie viele Leute wollen am Ausflug teilnehmen?
How many people want to take part in the outing?
Forms of teilnehmen 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 teilnehmen are also in the top 5,000:
Ich habe leider keine Zeit, daran teilzunehmen.
Unfortunately I don't have time to take part.
Hast du schon mal an einem Marathon teilgenommen?
Have you ever taken part in a marathon?
How common is teilnehmen?
teilnehmen is number 1,327 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 69 times per million words — about once every 15,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 67% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Related words in the list
teilnehmen is built from der Teil (part, piece) + nehmen (to take).
Words built on teilnehmen:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,323mitteilteannounced, informed
- 1,324behandelttreated, dealt with
- 1,325der Sohnson
- 1,326das Wetterweather
- 1,327teilnehmento take part
- 1,328der Vertreterrepresentative
- 1,329bisherigenprevious, to date
- 1,330zuhauseat home
- 1,331wohnento live, to reside
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Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.