German verb · CEFR B1

verwenden

Meaning in English: use

Rank 942 of 5,000verbLevel B13 forms in the list
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Example

Darf ich dein Ladekabel kurz verwenden?

May I use your charger for a moment?

Forms of verwenden 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 verwenden are also in the top 5,000:

verwendet#687
usedB1

Für den Kuchen habe ich weniger Zucker verwendet.
I used less sugar for the cake.

verwendeten#4,591
usedB1

Die verwendeten Zutaten sind alle bio.
The ingredients used are all organic.

How common is verwenden?

verwenden is number 942 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 95 times per million words — about once every 11,000 words. Its most frequent form is verwendet (#687).

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 64% 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. 938Voraussetzungenrequirements, prerequisites
  2. 939der Unfallaccident
  3. 940sorgtensures, provides; takes care
  4. 941die Pandemiepandemic
  5. 942verwendenuse
  6. 943das Mädchengirl
  7. 944laufenrun, walk
  8. 945passierthappened; happens
  9. 946die Initiativeinitiative

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