German verb · CEFR A2
wandern
Meaning in English: to hike, to go walking
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Hobbies and sport in German list.
Example
Am Wochenende wollen wir in den Bergen wandern.
At the weekend we want to go hiking in the mountains.
How common is wandern?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, wandern appears 14 times per million words — about once every 71,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
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