vorstellen
Meaning in English: to introduce, to imagine
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Darf ich dir meine Freundin vorstellen?
May I introduce my girlfriend to you?
Forms of vorstellen 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 vorstellen are also in the top 5,000:
So habe ich mir den Urlaub nicht vorgestellt.
That's not how I imagined the holiday.
How common is vorstellen?
vorstellen is number 1,733 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 53 times per million words — about once every 19,000 words. Its most frequent form is vorgestellt (#1,195).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 69% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Related words in the list
vorstellen is built from stellen (to put, to place (upright)).
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,729die Inflationinflation
- 1,730fordernto demand, to call for
- 1,731der Gastguest
- 1,732modernenmodern
- 1,733vorstellento introduce, to imagine
- 1,734das Fensterwindow
- 1,735nutztuses
- 1,736klareclear
- 1,737das Jahrhundertcentury
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