verlängern
Meaning in English: to extend, to renew
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Ich muss meinen Ausweis bald verlängern.
I need to renew my ID card soon.
Forms of verlängern 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 verlängern are also in the top 5,000:
Wir haben unseren Urlaub um eine Woche verlängert.
We extended our holiday by a week.
How common is verlängern?
verlängern is number 4,866 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 16 times per million words — about once every 61,000 words. Its most frequent form is verlängert (#2,082).
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.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,862der Tanzdance
- 4,863die Milchmilk
- 4,864festgelegtenfixed, specified
- 4,865Verbändenassociations (dative plural)
- 4,866verlängernto extend, to renew
- 4,867bestimmtercertain, particular
- 4,868das Finanzamttax office
- 4,869der Rücktrittresignation; withdrawal
- 4,870angesiedeltlocated, based; settled
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,866
- The most common German verbs#1,213
- German B1 vocabulary#1,575
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.