testen
Meaning in English: to test, to try out
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Willst du das neue Spiel mal testen?
Do you want to try out the new game?
Forms of testen 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 testen are also in the top 5,000:
Wir haben das neue Rezept am Wochenende getestet.
We tried out the new recipe at the weekend.
How common is testen?
testen is number 2,153 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 42 times per million words — about once every 24,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 71% 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
- 2,149danebennext to it, beside it; besides
- 2,150der Trefferhit, goal; search result
- 2,151einfachesimple, easy (inflected)
- 2,152Situationensituations
- 2,153testento test, to try out
- 2,154müsstewould have to, should
- 2,155greifento grab, to reach for
- 2,156die BundesligaBundesliga (German top league)
- 2,157Flächenareas, surfaces
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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.