wissen
Meaning in English: to know (facts)
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Wir wissen noch nicht, wann wir kommen.
We don't know yet when we're coming.
Forms of wissen 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 wissen are also in the top 5,000:
Ich weiß leider nicht, wo er wohnt.
I'm afraid I don't know where he lives.
Ich wusste nicht, dass du hier wohnst.
I didn't know that you live here.
How common is wissen?
wissen is number 297 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 290 times per million words — about once every 3,400 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 54% 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#297
- The 1,000 most common German words#297
- The 5,000 most common German words#297
- The most common German verbs#59
- German A1 vocabulary#180
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.