verzichten
Meaning in English: to do without, to give up
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Im Januar will ich auf Alkohol verzichten.
In January I want to give up alcohol.
Forms of verzichten 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 verzichten are also in the top 5,000:
Sie verzichtet seit Januar auf Alkohol.
She has been off alcohol since January.
How common is verzichten?
verzichten is number 1,673 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 55 times per million words — about once every 18,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 69% 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
- 1,669rechtenright; right-wing
- 1,670erinnertreminds, remembered
- 1,671ziemlichquite, fairly, rather
- 1,672die Erklärungexplanation, statement
- 1,673verzichtento do without, to give up
- 1,674diskutiertdiscussed
- 1,675Fallecase (im Falle: in case of); trap
- 1,676die Klinikclinic, hospital
- 1,677die Zustimmungapproval, consent
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