ziehen
Meaning in English: pull; move (house)
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Nächstes Jahr ziehen wir aufs Land.
Next year we're moving to the country.
Forms of ziehen 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 ziehen are also in the top 5,000:
Meine Freundin zieht nächsten Monat nach Hamburg.
My girlfriend is moving to Hamburg next month.
Mit zwanzig zog sie nach Berlin.
At twenty she moved to Berlin.
Wir sind letztes Jahr nach Hamburg gezogen.
We moved to Hamburg last year.
Letztes Jahr zogen wir nach Leipzig.
Last year we moved to Leipzig.
How common is ziehen?
ziehen is number 926 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 96 times per million words — about once every 10,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 64% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 922der Menschhuman being, person
- 923beteiligteninvolved
- 924die Prüfungexam, test; inspection
- 925hießwas called
- 926ziehenpull; move (house)
- 927stellteput, placed; asked (a question)
- 928verbessernimprove
- 929jährlichannual(ly), yearly
- 930manchesome, many a
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#926
- The 5,000 most common German words#926
- The most common German verbs#196
- German A2 vocabulary#229
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.