treffen
Meaning in English: to meet; to hit
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Wollen wir uns nach der Arbeit treffen?
Shall we meet after work?
Forms of treffen 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 treffen are also in the top 5,000:
Sie trifft ihre Freundinnen jeden Freitag im Café.
She meets her friends at the café every Friday.
Gestern habe ich zufällig deine Schwester getroffen.
Yesterday I bumped into your sister.
Im Urlaub traf sie einen alten Schulfreund.
On holiday she met an old school friend.
Wir trafen uns zufällig im Supermarkt.
We ran into each other at the supermarket.
How common is treffen?
treffen is number 485 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 183 times per million words — about once every 5,500 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 58% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 481euchyou (plural, acc./dat.)
- 482Tagendays (dative plural)
- 483könntencould (we/they/you)
- 484Jahresof the year (genitive)
- 485treffento meet; to hit
- 486die Stellejob, position; place, spot
- 487Möglichkeitenpossibilities, options
- 488vielleichtmaybe, perhaps
- 489nienever
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- German A1 vocabulary#258
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