Vocabulary · Verbs
German Verbs List — A1 to C2 — Words 1,681–1,740
Continuing the list — words 1,681 to 1,740 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.
- fahnden to search (conduct an investigative search operation, usually for persons or…
- verlagern to relocate; to shift
- versperren to bar, to block; to lock
- losbinden to untie; to unbind
- imponieren to impress
- sterilisieren to sterilize
- desinfizieren to disinfect
- herauszubekommen zu-infinitive of herausbekommen
- zurückfliegen fly back
- enttarnen to expose, to unmask, to uncover; to decloak
- triumphieren to triumph
- komponieren to compose
- erleuchten to enlighten, illuminate
- abarbeiten to work off (a debt, the items on a to-do list, etc); to resolve or take care of…
- observieren to keep someone or something under surveillance for any length of time (for a particular…
- verbleiben to remain
- hissen to hoist (a flag or sail)
- vorübergehen to pass by, to pass over, to pass
- erringen to gain, to achieve (by great effort)
- einfordern
- auswechseln to swap out, replace
- versklaven to enslave
- aufzählen to list, enumerate
- vereitelt past participle of vereiteln
- befreiend present participle of befreien
- zurückerobern to recapture
- begnadigen to pardon
- einfliegen fly in; fly into
- hypnotisieren hypnotise; hypnotize
- durchbohren to bore, drill through something
- überschlagen to skip over, omit, leave out (especially in a book, story, account; less commonly also…
- spreizen to straddle; to spread (legs)
- entbinden to see a woman through childbirth; to deliver; to give birth; referring to labour,…
- zerfetzen to tear apart, to lacerate, to shred
- durchtrennen to cut in two; to sever
- vibrieren to vibrate
- entledigen to get rid; to free oneself; to take off
- entschließen to decide
- erblühen to blossom
- postieren position; station
- hervorgebracht past participle of hervorbringen
- exekutieren to execute (kill); to seize, to impound
- beglückwünschen to congratulate
- detonieren to detonate
- appellieren to appeal
- aufmischen to shake up, to shuffle up; to rough up, to beat up
- verwüsten to devastate, ravage
- bewerkstelligen to bring about, realize
- tilgen to erase, to extinguish; to amortize, to repay, to redeem
- bezwecken to intend
- verabscheuen to abhor, to detest, to loathe, to abominate
- sezieren to dissect
- dämpfen to steam, treat with steam; to damp (to attenuate or deaden, as vibrations)
- verunsichern to unsettle, to make insecure, to make uncertain
- abwickeln to unwind; to wind up, wind down (to dissolve a partnership or corporation and liquidate…
- durchlesen to read through; to peruse
- mitreißen to entrain; to carry away
- hinreißen to enrapture
- fungieren to act, to serve (to fill a certain role or function)
- umwandeln to convert, change, commute; to transform, transmute
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.