tun
Meaning in English: to do
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Was kann ich für Sie tun?
What can I do for you?
Forms of tun 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 tun are also in the top 5,000:
Mein Rücken tut seit Tagen weh.
My back has been hurting for days.
Was habe ich dir denn getan?
What have I done to you?
How common is tun?
tun is number 363 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 239 times per million words — about once every 4,200 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 55% 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
- 359das Spielgame, match; play
- 360unterstützento support
- 361zehnten
- 362zeigento show
- 363tunto do
- 364darfmay, is allowed to
- 365bekanntknown, well-known; familiar
- 366standstood; was (written)
- 367die Universitätuniversity
In these word lists
- The 500 most common German words#363
- The 1,000 most common German words#363
- The 5,000 most common German words#363
- The most common German verbs#76
- German A2 vocabulary#83
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.