treten
Meaning in English: to step, to kick
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Bitte treten Sie einen Schritt zurück.
Please step back.
Forms of treten 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 treten are also in the top 5,000:
Die Band tritt heute Abend im Stadtpark auf.
The band is performing in the city park tonight.
Er trat vorsichtig auf die Straße.
He stepped carefully onto the street.
Ich bin in eine Pfütze getreten.
I stepped in a puddle.
How common is treten?
treten is number 1,288 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 71 times per million words — about once every 14,000 words. Its most frequent form is tritt (#1,214).
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
Words built on treten:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,284der Momentmoment
- 1,285schnellerfaster, quicker
- 1,286Funktionenfunctions, features
- 1,287livelive
- 1,288tretento step, to kick
- 1,289übertragento broadcast, to transfer
- 1,290anderesother, something else
- 1,291die Staatsanwaltschaftpublic prosecutor's office
- 1,292das Gerätdevice, appliance
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