weisen
Meaning in English: to point, to show; to refer
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Alle Spuren weisen auf den Nachbarn hin.
All the clues point to the neighbour.
Forms of weisen 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 weisen are also in the top 5,000:
Das Schild weist den Weg zum Bahnhof.
The sign shows the way to the station.
Sie wies auf ein Schild am Weg.
She pointed to a sign by the path.
How common is weisen?
weisen is number 2,299 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 39 times per million words — about once every 25,000 words. Its most frequent form is weist (#2,066).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 72% of the words in an ordinary German text. C1 means an advanced word, mostly met in formal or written German.
Related words in the list
Words built on weisen:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,295wesentlichessential; considerably
- 2,296der Bewerberapplicant(s), candidate(s)
- 2,297der Gegensatzcontrast, opposite
- 2,298Anregungensuggestions, ideas, stimulus
- 2,299weisento point, to show; to refer
- 2,300älterenolder, elderly (inflected)
- 2,301überprüfento check, to verify
- 2,302besitztowns, possesses
- 2,303aufnehmento record; to take in, to admit
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