verfolgen
Meaning in English: follow, pursue, track
Add verfolgen and its 1 form to your reviews. Progress stays in this browser.
Test my vocabularyExample
Wir verfolgen das Spiel im Fernsehen.
We're following the match on TV.
Forms of verfolgen 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 verfolgen are also in the top 5,000:
Ich habe das Spiel im Radio verfolgt.
I followed the match on the radio.
How common is verfolgen?
verfolgen is number 2,551 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 28,000 words. Its most frequent form is verfolgt (#1,997).
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
- 2,547gabengave (past, plural)
- 2,548RusslandsRussia's (genitive)
- 2,549die Konkurrenzcompetition, competitors
- 2,550zeigtenshowed (past, plural)
- 2,551verfolgenfollow, pursue, track
- 2,552der Einstiegentry, start; boarding
- 2,553der Bundeskanzlerfederal chancellor
- 2,554rundenround
- 2,555haltjust, simply (it's like that)
In these word lists
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.