Wer
Meaning in English: who
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Wer hat meinen Kuli genommen?
Who took my pen?
Forms of Wer in the top 5,000
These forms of Wer are in the top 5,000 as well — German adds endings for gender, case and number:
Wen hast du gestern im Kino getroffen?
Who did you meet at the cinema yesterday?
Wem gehört dieser Schirm?
Whose umbrella is this?
How common is Wer?
Wer is number 150 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 570 times per million words — about once every 1,800 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 48% 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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In these word lists
- The 500 most common German words#150
- The 1,000 most common German words#150
- The 5,000 most common German words#150
- German A1 vocabulary#114
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.