vermeiden
Meaning in English: to avoid
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Ich versuche, Zucker zu vermeiden.
I try to avoid sugar.
Forms of vermeiden 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 vermeiden are also in the top 5,000:
Der Unfall hätte vermieden werden können.
The accident could have been avoided.
How common is vermeiden?
vermeiden is number 1,314 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 70 times per million words — about once every 14,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 67% 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
- 1,310der Schadendamage, harm
- 1,311plötzlichsuddenly
- 1,312nahenear, close
- 1,313die Weiterbildungfurther training
- 1,314vermeidento avoid
- 1,315der Sprecherspokesman, speaker
- 1,316verändertchanged
- 1,317Punktenpoints (dative plural)
- 1,318die Lehreapprenticeship, teaching, lesson
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