German verb · CEFR B1

verbessern

Meaning in English: improve

Rank 928 of 5,000verbLevel B12 forms in the list
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Example

Ich möchte mein Deutsch verbessern.

I'd like to improve my German.

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

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Dein Deutsch hat sich sehr verbessert!
Your German has improved a lot!

How common is verbessern?

verbessern is number 928 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 95 times per million words — about once every 10,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 64% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 924die Prüfungexam, test; inspection
  2. 925hießwas called
  3. 926ziehenpull; move (house)
  4. 927stellteput, placed; asked (a question)
  5. 928verbessernimprove
  6. 929jährlichannual(ly), yearly
  7. 930manchesome, many a
  8. 931zentralecentral
  9. 932die Leutepeople

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