warten
Meaning in English: to wait
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Wie lange warten Sie schon auf den Bus?
How long have you been waiting for the bus?
Forms of warten 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 warten are also in the top 5,000:
Draußen wartet schon ein Taxi auf dich.
A taxi is already waiting for you outside.
How common is warten?
warten is number 1,131 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 80 times per million words — about once every 13,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 66% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
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