wachsen
Meaning in English: grow
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Tomaten wachsen am besten in der Sonne.
Tomatoes grow best in the sun.
Forms of wachsen 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 wachsen are also in the top 5,000:
Unser Sohn wächst so schnell!
Our son is growing so fast!
Die Tomaten sind dieses Jahr gut gewachsen.
The tomatoes have grown well this year.
How common is wachsen?
wachsen is number 2,629 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 34 times per million words — about once every 29,000 words. Its most frequent form is wächst (#2,470).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 73% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
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Words built on wachsen:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,625offensichtlichobvious, obviously
- 2,626Branchenindustries, sectors
- 2,627Anfragenenquiries, requests
- 2,628die Inklusioninclusion
- 2,629wachsengrow
- 2,630die Migrationmigration
- 2,631der Arbeitsmarktjob market, labour market
- 2,632klingtsounds
- 2,633der Umsatzturnover, sales
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