umfassen
Meaning in English: to comprise, to include
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Die Kurse umfassen jeweils zehn Termine.
Each course comprises ten sessions.
Forms of umfassen 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 umfassen are also in the top 5,000:
Das Paket umfasst Flug, Hotel und Frühstück.
The package includes flight, hotel and breakfast.
How common is umfassen?
umfassen is number 4,137 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 20 times per million words — about once every 50,000 words. Its most frequent form is umfasst (#1,116).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% of the words in an ordinary German text. C1 means an advanced word, mostly met in formal or written German.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,133demokratischendemocratic
- 4,134gesunkenfallen, sunk
- 4,135das Abenteueradventure
- 4,136der Regisseur(film) director
- 4,137umfassento comprise, to include
- 4,138modernermore modern; modern (inflected)
- 4,139Ärztendoctors (dative)
- 4,140Seminareseminars, courses
- 4,141die Notegrade, mark; (musical) note
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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.