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German verb · CEFR B2

umsetzen

Meaning in English: implement, put into practice

Rank 2,586 of 5,000verbLevel B23 forms in the list
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Example

Wie wollen wir diese Idee umsetzen?

How are we going to put this idea into practice?

Forms of umsetzen 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 umsetzen are also in the top 5,000:

umgesetzt#1,176
implemented, put into practiceC1

Die Idee wurde leider nie umgesetzt.
Sadly, the idea was never put into practice.

umzusetzen#2,793
to implement, put into practiceB2

Der Plan ist leicht umzusetzen.
The plan is easy to put into practice.

How common is umsetzen?

umsetzen is number 2,586 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 35 times per million words — about once every 29,000 words. Its most frequent form is umgesetzt (#1,176).

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 73% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 2,582der Eigentümerowner
  2. 2,583Seniorensenior citizens
  3. 2,584kurzershort, brief
  4. 2,585die Fahrbahnroad, carriageway
  5. 2,586umsetzenimplement, put into practice
  6. 2,587sehe(I) see
  7. 2,588der Starstar (celebrity)
  8. 2,589Mittelnmeans, funds (dative plural)
  9. 2,590Netzwerkennetworks (dative plural)

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