wählen
Meaning in English: choose; vote; dial
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Du kannst zwischen drei Farben wählen.
You can choose between three colours.
Forms of wählen 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 wählen are also in the top 5,000:
Ich habe wohl die falsche Nummer gewählt.
I must have dialled the wrong number.
Sie wählt immer die Nudeln mit Tomatensoße.
She always chooses the pasta with tomato sauce.
How common is wählen?
wählen is number 893 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 99 times per million words — about once every 10,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 63% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Related words in the list
Words built on wählen:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 889bekommtgets, receives
- 890die Ideeidea
- 891Behördenauthorities
- 892die Vielfaltdiversity, variety
- 893wählenchoose; vote; dial
- 894Cookiescookies (web); biscuits
- 895das Auslandabroad, foreign countries
- 896Chancenchances, opportunities
- 897der Kriegwar
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#893
- The 5,000 most common German words#893
- The most common German verbs#189
- German A2 vocabulary#213
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.