verlassen
Meaning in English: leave
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Bitte verlassen Sie jetzt das Gebäude.
Please leave the building now.
Forms of verlassen 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 verlassen are also in the top 5,000:
Wer als Letzter das Büro verlässt, macht das Licht aus.
Whoever leaves the office last turns off the light.
How common is verlassen?
verlassen is number 862 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 102 times per million words — about once every 9,800 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 63% 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
- 858die Auswahlselection, choice
- 859entsprechendencorresponding, relevant
- 860erfolgentake place, be carried out
- 861altold
- 862verlassenleave
- 863kamencame
- 864die Leistungperformance, achievement; service
- 865manchmalsometimes
- 866ChinaChina
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#862
- The 5,000 most common German words#862
- The most common German verbs#183
- German B1 vocabulary#222
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.