German verb · CEFR B2
vorgehen
Meaning in English: to proceed, to act; to go ahead
Example
Wie sollen wir jetzt vorgehen?
How should we proceed now?
How common is vorgehen?
vorgehen is number 1,775 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 52 times per million words — about once every 19,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 70% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Related words in the list
vorgehen is built from gehen (to go, to walk).
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,771extremextreme(ly)
- 1,772das Werkwork, factory
- 1,773die Umfragesurvey, poll
- 1,774gesuchtsearched, looked for; wanted
- 1,775vorgehento proceed, to act; to go ahead
- 1,776Angehörigenrelatives, family members
- 1,777geschriebenwritten
- 1,778Neinno
- 1,779Anlagenfacilities, systems, attachments
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