versprechen
Meaning in English: to promise
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Kannst du mir versprechen, pünktlich zu sein?
Can you promise me you'll be on time?
Forms of versprechen 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 versprechen are also in the top 5,000:
Der Wetterbericht verspricht ein sonniges Wochenende.
The forecast promises a sunny weekend.
How common is versprechen?
versprechen is number 3,148 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 27 times per million words — about once every 36,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 75% 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
- 3,144der Hektarhectare
- 3,145leerempty
- 3,146unterschiedlicherdifferent, various (inflected)
- 3,147kontrolliertchecked, controlled
- 3,148versprechento promise
- 3,149entnehmento take (from), to gather (from)
- 3,150steckento put, to stick; to be (stuck)
- 3,151bearbeitento process, to edit, to work on
- 3,152definiertdefined
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