Vocabulary · Verbs
German Verbs List — A1 to C2 — Words 1,921–1,980
Continuing the list — words 1,921 to 1,980 of 2,742, still commonest first. Back to the start of the list.
2,742
entries
128
at A1
159
at A2
385
at B1
Each row links to the word's full entry — meanings, forms, examples and audio — on its own level page.
- scherzen to joke; to jest; to frolic
- schaukeln to swing back and forth, to rock to and fro (e.g. a baby)
- autorisieren to authorize
- einfrieren to freeze (to lower something's temperature to freezing point); to freeze (wages,…
- weiterziehen to move on
- auslachen to laugh at; to finish laughing
- verkuppeln to set up, matchmake
- blinzeln to squint; to blink
- diagnostizieren to diagnose
- überreagieren to overreact
- heimkommen to come home
- revidieren to revise, check, amend; to overhaul
- sortieren to sort
- unterstellen to put beneath, to shelter under; to assume, suppose, postulate, take it
- zusammenziehen to shorten, to contract; to move in together; to shack up [with mit (+ dative) ‘with…
- hochkommen to come up (socially or physically)
- fauchen to hiss, to spit, to growl; to hiss (e.g., escaping steam)
- kaputtmachen to break; to spoil, ruin, damage, destroy
- verabreichen to give, to feed (food, drink, fertilizer); to give (to make experience)
- auslaufen to expire; to be no longer valid; to leak; to flow out; to run out; to run dry, to empty
- bündeln to bundle
- hierlassen to leave here
- tummeln to frisk, romp (move about energetically and cheerfully); to abound, to be somewhere in…
- blenden to dazzle; to blind (confuse someone’s sight by means of excessive brightness); to show…
- abkaufen to buy (from), buy out; to buy into, buy (to believe something)
- aufmuntern to cheer up
- verleugnen to renege, repudiate; to disown (a child, friend etc.)
- spuken to haunt
- klappern to clatter (make a rattling or clapping sound)
- lauschen to listen (to wait for a sound); to eavesdrop
- befallen to affect; to seize
- schmieden to forge; to devise
- wandeln to wander, to stroll; to walk
- massieren to massage; to mass, amass, concentrate, condense
- reimen to rhyme
- leidtun to regret, to be sorry (with the cause of the regret as the subject and the person…
- ausrücken to march out; to go on a mission; to be deployed
- bekunden to prove, show, evince; to state, express, testify
- mehren to increase
- vermelden to announce, report
- anmerken to mark; to note; to make a note of (something); to observe (something) in (someone); to…
- herziehen to move here; to drag
- niederbrennen to burn down
- zerren to tug; to drag
- verkorksen to make a mess of, to ruin, screw up, bugger up
- vorbeigehen to go past, to go by; to drop by
- versperren to bar, to block; to lock
- pochen to thump, to throb; to insist
- überlasten to overload, to overburden
- pokern to play poker; to push one's luck, to gamble
- beflügeln to inspire, to spur, to buoy, to stimulate
- entbehren to do without, to dispense with; to be deprived of
- schlüpfen to slip (move quickly); to hatch
- standhalten to stand, withstand, defy
- übersteigen to exceed; to climb over, to surmount
- zusammensetzen to assemble, compose (put together); to consist of, to be made up by
- winseln to whine, to whimper
- knutschen to kiss passionately; to neck; to make out; to smooch
- stiften to found, to create (an organization or award, especially with a focus on financing); to…
- formen to form, to shape (to give something a shape)
Common questions
How many German verbs should I know?
This list holds 2,742 verbs graded A1 to C2. 287 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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