German verb · CEFR B1
vorkommen
Meaning in English: to occur, to happen, to seem
Example
So etwas darf nicht noch einmal vorkommen.
Something like that must not happen again.
How common is vorkommen?
vorkommen is number 4,395 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 54,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Related words in the list
vorkommen is built from kommen (to come).
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,391die Unterbringungaccommodation, housing
- 4,392Grundereason; basically (im Grunde)
- 4,393die Antragstellungapplication (submitting a form)
- 4,394fielenfell
- 4,395vorkommento occur, to happen, to seem
- 4,396die Allianzalliance
- 4,397Instituteinstitutes
- 4,398Menschenrechtehuman rights
- 4,399anschauento look at, to watch
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,395
- The most common German verbs#1,104
- German B1 vocabulary#1,435
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