vertreten
Meaning in English: to represent, to stand in for
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Während meines Urlaubs wird mich eine Kollegin vertreten.
A colleague will stand in for me during my holiday.
Forms of vertreten 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 vertreten are also in the top 5,000:
Wer vertritt dich, wenn du im Urlaub bist?
Who stands in for you when you're on holiday?
How common is vertreten?
vertreten is number 1,202 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 76 times per million words — about once every 13,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 66% 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
- 1,198Beschäftigtenemployees, staff
- 1,199gewonnenwon
- 1,200besuchento visit, to attend
- 1,201unbedingtabsolutely, by all means
- 1,202vertretento represent, to stand in for
- 1,203nachhaltigesustainable
- 1,204digitaldigital(ly)
- 1,205die Öffentlichkeitthe public
- 1,206vollständigcomplete, fully
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