zählen
Meaning in English: to count
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Meine Tochter kann schon bis hundert zählen.
My daughter can already count to a hundred.
Forms of zählen 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 zählen are also in the top 5,000:
Am Ende zählt nur, dass du gesund bist.
In the end all that counts is that you're healthy.
How common is zählen?
zählen is number 1,216 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 75 times per million words — about once every 13,000 words. Its most frequent form is zählt (#1,212).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 66% 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
- 1,212zähltcounts
- 1,213eröffnetopened
- 1,214trittsteps, kicks, appears
- 1,215der Kampffight, struggle
- 1,216zählento count
- 1,217der Stromelectricity, current, stream
- 1,218der Lehrerteacher
- 1,219starkenstrong
- 1,220der Schwerpunktfocus, main emphasis
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