German verb · CEFR A1
weinen
Meaning in English: to cry
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Feelings and emotions in German list.
Example
Das Baby fängt gleich an zu weinen.
The baby is about to start crying.
How common is weinen?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, weinen appears 6.2 times per million words — about once every 160,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
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- Feelings and emotions in German26 words
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