wohnen
Meaning in English: to live, to reside
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Wo wohnen Sie denn genau?
Where exactly do you live?
Forms of wohnen 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 wohnen are also in the top 5,000:
Meine Schwester wohnt jetzt in Hamburg.
My sister lives in Hamburg now.
How common is wohnen?
wohnen is number 1,331 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 69 times per million words — about once every 15,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 67% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,327teilnehmento take part
- 1,328der Vertreterrepresentative
- 1,329bisherigenprevious, to date
- 1,330zuhauseat home
- 1,331wohnento live, to reside
- 1,332bezeichnetcalled, described
- 1,333Änderungenchanges
- 1,334die Demokratiedemocracy
- 1,335offenenopen
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