unterrichten
Meaning in English: to teach
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Er möchte später Mathe unterrichten.
Later on he'd like to teach maths.
Forms of unterrichten 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 unterrichten are also in the top 5,000:
Meine Mutter unterrichtet Mathe an einer Grundschule.
My mother teaches maths at a primary school.
How common is unterrichten?
unterrichten is number 4,576 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 18 times per million words — about once every 57,000 words. Its most frequent form is unterrichtet (#3,528).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Related words in the list
unterrichten is built from richten (to direct, to address; to judge).
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,572verkündetannounced, proclaimed
- 4,573der Außenministerforeign minister
- 4,574der Gottesdienstchurch service
- 4,575musikalischenmusical
- 4,576unterrichtento teach
- 4,577zweierof two (genitive)
- 4,578Müttermothers
- 4,579verantwortento answer for, to take responsibility
- 4,580zuverlässigreliable
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,576
- The most common German verbs#1,150
- German B1 vocabulary#1,490
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.