versuchen
Meaning in English: to try
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Wir versuchen, pünktlich zu sein.
We'll try to be on time.
Forms of versuchen 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 versuchen are also in the top 5,000:
Ich habe es gestern dreimal bei dir versucht.
I tried you three times yesterday.
Ich versuche, weniger Zucker zu essen.
I'm trying to eat less sugar.
Sie versuchte, ihn anzurufen, aber er ging nicht ran.
She tried to call him, but he didn't pick up.
Wir versuchten, ihn anzurufen, aber er ging nicht ran.
We tried to call him, but he didn't pick up.
How common is versuchen?
versuchen is number 1,167 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 77 times per million words — about once every 13,000 words. Its most frequent form is versucht (#1,098).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 66% 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
- 1,163wünschento wish, to want
- 1,164Regelungenrules, regulations
- 1,165beträgtamounts to, is
- 1,166beteiligtinvolved, taking part
- 1,167versuchento try
- 1,168bliebstayed, remained
- 1,169das Wortword
- 1,170berichtetereported
- 1,171die Vergangenheitpast
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