untersuchen
Meaning in English: to examine, to investigate
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Der Arzt will mein Knie genau untersuchen.
The doctor wants to examine my knee closely.
Forms of untersuchen 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 untersuchen are also in the top 5,000:
Der Arzt hat mein Knie untersucht.
The doctor examined my knee.
How common is untersuchen?
untersuchen is number 3,414 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 25 times per million words — about once every 40,000 words. Its most frequent form is untersucht (#1,658).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 75% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Related words in the list
untersuchen is built from suchen (look for, search).
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,410der Kindergartenkindergarten, nursery school
- 3,411wodurchwhereby, as a result of which; how
- 3,412vorliegtis available, exists, is at hand
- 3,413der SamstagabendSaturday evening
- 3,414untersuchento examine, to investigate
- 3,415letzterlast
- 3,416jüdischenJewish
- 3,417auseinanderapart
- 3,418nachtsat night
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