werfen
Meaning in English: throw
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Kannst du mir den Ball werfen?
Can you throw me the ball?
Forms of werfen 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 werfen are also in the top 5,000:
Wer wirft heute den Müll raus?
Who's taking the rubbish out today?
Das Kind warf den Ball über den Zaun.
The child threw the ball over the fence.
How common is werfen?
werfen is number 2,517 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 36 times per million words — about once every 28,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 73% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
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