German noun, masculine · CEFR B2
Zeugen
Meaning in English: witnesses
This is a form of Zeuge, which is not in the top 5,000 on its own.
Example
Die Polizei sucht Zeugen für den Unfall.
The police are looking for witnesses to the accident.
How common is Zeugen?
Zeugen is number 1,647 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 56 times per million words — about once every 18,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 69% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,643verfügento have (at one's disposal)
- 1,644die Lebensmittelfood, groceries
- 1,645die Änderungchange, alteration
- 1,646das Fotophoto
- 1,647Zeugenwitnesses
- 1,648Erwachseneadults
- 1,649der Verbraucherconsumer(s)
- 1,650die Stimmungmood, atmosphere
- 1,651die Krisecrisis
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