wirken
Meaning in English: to seem, to work, to have an effect
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Die Tabletten wirken erst nach einer Stunde.
The tablets only take effect after an hour.
Forms of wirken 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 wirken are also in the top 5,000:
Er wirkt heute etwas müde.
He seems a bit tired today.
How common is wirken?
wirken is number 1,548 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 59 times per million words — about once every 17,000 words. Its most frequent form is wirkt (#1,350).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 68% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,544der Umfangextent, scope, size
- 1,545schließento close, to shut
- 1,546setzteset, put, sat (oneself) down
- 1,547der Auftrittappearance, performance
- 1,548wirkento seem, to work, to have an effect
- 1,549diesmalthis time
- 1,550entwedereither (entweder … oder)
- 1,551die Postpost, mail, post office
- 1,552kämpfento fight, to struggle
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