Vocabulary · Verbs
German Verbs List, A1 to C2, Words 1,621–1,680
Words 1,621 to 1,680 of 2,742, commonest first. Back to the start of the list.
2,742
entries
114
at A1
167
at A2
397
at B1
- freisprechen to acquit; to exonerate
- mitkriegen synonym of mitbekommen
- sausen to rush; to dash, to whizz
- hierherkommen to get here
- übertreffen to exceed, to surpass, to outdo; to exceed (a certain standard)
- hinfallen to fall down
- entschärfen to defuse
- verrecken to croak, die
- erwidern to reciprocate, return, to react with something analogous; to answer, reply
- lokalisieren to localize
- beschatten to shadow, beshade (give shade, cast a shadow over); to shadow (secretly follow and…
- verlagern to relocate; to shift
- nachschauen to (have a) look; to look and see, to check
- verkleiden to dress up, to disguise; to cover, to panel
- wiederfinden to find again
- bekennen to confess, to avow, to profess (a belief, feeling, guilt, adherence to something); to…
- errechnen to reckon, calculate, compute
- taufen to baptize; to name
- vermarkten to market
- beteuern to assert, affirm, aver, asseverate
- zustehen to be entitled; to occur
- einschränken to constrain; to economize
- vergießen to shed (blood, sweat, tears); to spill
- platzieren to place, plant
- lindern to alleviate, to ease, to relieve; a municipality of Lower Saxony, Germany
- hinstellen to put down; to describe
- mobilisieren to mobilize
- umwandeln to convert, change, commute; to transform, transmute
- haften to stick, to adhere; to be liable, to be responsible
- versterben to die, to pass away
- verstreuen to scatter; to disperse
- stottern to stutter
- vorziehen to pull to the front; synonym of hervorziehen
- abriegeln to bar, to bolt; to close off, to block off
- klammern to cling
- plündern to loot; to plunder; to pillage; to raid (to steal large amounts (from), especially in a…
- gebühren to be due, to be owed, to rightfully belong; to be proper, seemly
- zurücknehmen to withdraw, retract; to redeem
- entfalten to unfold (to undo a folding); to unfold; develop; pan out
- pausieren to pause
- absuchen to scour; to search
- verbluten to bleed to death, to bleed out (die from loss of blood)
- verpfeifen to tell on, to snitch, to rat on/out; to piss off
- sündigen to sin
- austricksen to trick (to gain an advantage); to feint
- verdrängen to displace; to replace, supersede, oust
- rudern to row (propel over water using oars); to flail (one's arms)
- ergehen forms the perfect with sein; to go out, to be issued
- neigen to incline, slant, tilt, bend, lower (move something in some direction by bowing or…
- blamieren to embarrass; to disgrace oneself
- vorenthalten to withhold; to retain
- kollidieren to collide
- überarbeiten to edit something in order to improve it; to edit something that it is nearly completely…
- zerquetschen to crush
- draufgehen to fall apart; to die
- bewilligen to grant, to concede, to allow, to approve
- durchlaufen to go through, to run through; to complete, to go through (of a process)
- hinkommen to go or travel somewhere and arrive (can refer to the journey, the arrival, or both);…
- umleiten to reroute, to redirect, to divert
- sehnen to yearn, to long
Common questions
How many German verbs should I know?
This list holds 2,742 verbs graded A1 to C2. 281 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.
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