verlieren
Meaning in English: to lose
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Ich will keine Zeit verlieren.
I don't want to lose any time.
Forms of verlieren 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 verlieren are also in the top 5,000:
Ich habe meinen Schlüssel verloren.
I've lost my key.
Unsere Mannschaft verlor knapp mit 1:2.
Our team narrowly lost 1-2.
Mein Bruder verliert ständig seine Schlüssel.
My brother keeps losing his keys.
How common is verlieren?
verlieren is number 1,825 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 50 times per million words — about once every 20,000 words. Its most frequent form is verloren (#908).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 70% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,821gearbeitetworked
- 1,822entstandarose, came into being
- 1,823höherenhigher
- 1,824geprüftchecked, tested
- 1,825verlierento lose
- 1,826solleshould, is supposed to (reported speech)
- 1,827die Matratzemattress
- 1,828betrifftconcerns, affects
- 1,829der Flughafenairport
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