verhindern
Meaning in English: to prevent
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Wie kann man einen Streit verhindern?
How can you prevent an argument?
Forms of verhindern 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 verhindern are also in the top 5,000:
Leider bin ich morgen verhindert.
Unfortunately I can't make it tomorrow.
How common is verhindern?
verhindern is number 1,121 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 80 times per million words — about once every 12,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 65% 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
- 1,117die Anmeldungregistration, sign-up
- 1,118startento start, to take off
- 1,119gesetztset, put, placed
- 1,120das Stückpiece, play
- 1,121verhindernto prevent
- 1,122der Standortlocation, site
- 1,123Videosvideos
- 1,124Autoscars
- 1,125allgemeinengeneral
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