German verb · CEFR B2
verteidigen
Meaning in English: to defend
Example
Sie musste ihre Meinung vor allen verteidigen.
She had to defend her opinion in front of everyone.
How common is verteidigen?
verteidigen is number 4,308 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 19 times per million words — about once every 53,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,304das Gehirnbrain
- 4,305verschwindento disappear, to vanish
- 4,306tollgreat, fantastic
- 4,307gelöstsolved
- 4,308verteidigento defend
- 4,309scharfsharp, spicy
- 4,310ähnlichensimilar
- 4,311unmöglichimpossible
- 4,312das Ausmaßextent, scale
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,308
- The most common German verbs#1,086
- German B2 vocabulary#1,022
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