Vocabulary · Verbs
German Verbs List — A1 to C2 — Words 721–780
Continuing the list — words 721 to 780 of 1,897, still commonest first. Back to the start of the list.
1,897
entries
45
at A1
137
at A2
227
at B1
Each row links to the word's full entry — meanings, forms, examples and audio — on its own level page.
- begünstigen to favor / favour; to aid and abet
- erschöpfen to exhaust
- verzerren to distort
- voranbringen advance something, to get going , to get moving , to promote; promote , to allow to…
- demontieren to dismantle
- beseelt past participle of beseelen
- balancieren to balance
- dramatisieren to dramatize
- verhüllen to cloak, to cover; to veil
- entkräften to refute
- voraussetzen to presuppose or assume; to require as a precondition
- nahelegen to indicate, to suggest (a specific explanation or conclusion); to suggest, to recommend…
- desillusioniert past participle of desillusionieren
- disqualifizieren disqualify
- einwenden to raise (an objection to), to make (an argument against)
- artikulieren to articulate (to clarify)
- transformieren to transform
- abschwächen to make milder, weaken, abate, attenuate, soften; to alleviate, mitigate
- heranziehen to raise, to groom, to grow; to draw closer
- abonnieren to subscribe (to a newspaper, a [social media/TV] channel, etc.); to follow (e.g., on…
- assoziieren to associate
- überwiegen to outweigh, preponderate; to prevail, predominate
- komprimieren to compress
- bestimmend present participle of bestimmen
- intensivieren to intensify; to make more intense
- ansammeln to accumulate, to pile up; to gather, to accrue, to accumulate
- resultieren to result
- klassifizieren to classify
- entgegnen to retort, to counter (to reply with a counterpoint or opposing sentiment)
- skizzieren to sketch (to create a sketch); to outline
- einleuchten to become clear to, to succeed to become part of someone’s understanding; to make…
- verpflichtend present participle of verpflichten
- verdichten to condense, to densify; to solidify
- polarisieren to create electrical or magnetic poles.; to create a fixed direction of vibration from…
- charakterisieren to characterize
- verallgemeinern to generalize
- veranschaulichen to illustrate, to exemplify
- strukturieren to structure (to give structure to; to arrange)
- illustrieren to illustrate
- evaluieren to evaluate
- schleichend present participle of schleichen
- stagnieren to stagnate; to stagnate (develop slowly, make no progress)
- herleiten to deduce; to derive
- differenzieren to differentiate
- gegenüberstellen to contrast; to oppose
- artikuliert past participle of artikulieren
- politisieren to politicise; to talk politics
- tüfteln to tinker, to work on something, to attempt to work out a solution carefully and patiently
- abgrenzen to delimit, to demarcate
- priorisieren to prioritize
- genese inflection of genesen:
- konzipieren to conceptualise, to design
- fingieren to feign (to represent by a false appearance of)
- erschwerend
- idealisieren to idealize, to idealise (UK)
- abmildern to soften, attenuate
- harmonisieren to harmonize
- implementieren to implement (bring about)
- umreißen to pull down, knock down, demolish
- zuspitzen to sharpen, to point; to sharpen, to narrow down, to aggravate, to exaggerate
Common questions
How many German verbs should I know?
This list holds 1,897 verbs graded A1 to C2. 182 of them fall in A1–A2, which is the set worth knowing cold before anything else.
Are the verb forms included?
Yes — every verb entry lists the third-person present, the preterite and the past participle, plus whether it takes haben or sein in the perfect. Those four pieces are enough to build every tense.
Grammatical data from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0. See sources.