Vocabulary · Verbs
German Verbs List, A1 to C2, Words 2,041–2,100
Words 2,041 to 2,100 of 2,742, commonest first. Back to the start of the list.
2,742
entries
114
at A1
167
at A2
397
at B1
- hegen to cherish; to harbor, to have, to hold (e.g., doubts, a grudge, grievances)
- drängeln to push, jostle (as through crowd, in a queue); to tailgate (drive dangerously close)
- kreieren to design; to shape; to create (a composition, a fashion line, etc.)
- moderieren to moderate
- killen to kill; to shiver
- abwischen to wipe off, wipe away
- verbünden to ally
- schmücken to adorn, to decorate
- bewerfen to throw at someone or something
- entladen to unload, to discharge; to drain (a battery)
- zuweisen to assign; to allocate, to appropriate (funds)
- anfordern to request, ask for, to order (something), to send for
- handhaben to handle, to wield, to employ (a tool, often not in a resultative sense but rather…
- beschwören to conjure; to swear to (something)
- vorschreiben to prescribe, to dictate, to command
- beleben to liven up; to animate
- kreuzen to cross (place across); to cross, intersect
- nachforschen to investigate; to inquire
- versohlen to spank
- lüften to air, ventilate; to lift, take off (a covering, such as a hat, veil, pot lid)
- weiterführen to continue
- vorrücken to proceed; to advance (to move forwards, to approach)
- weiterreden to continue speaking
- avancieren to be promoted, to advance; to become, to advance
- einweihen to instruct; to initiate
- reihen to line up; to arrange (according to some structure); to line up; to follow one after…
- verlosen to raffle (off)
- bereinigen to settle; to rectify
- wegbleiben to stay away
- beabsichtigen to intend
- durchsehen to look through; to review, to revise, to inspect
- anstreben to strive, to seek, to target, to pursue
- verspotten to make fun of, to mock; to ridicule
- gleiten to glide; to float; to move effortlessly; to slide; to slip; to transition smoothly
- assistieren to assist
- hinken to limp, to hobble (walk with difficulty due to injury)
- aufschlagen to pitch, to serve (a ball); to set up, to pitch up (a camp, a tent)
- reformieren to reform
- relativieren to relativize, to qualify, to put into perspective, to put into context
- aufholen to catch up, to gain on
- durchqueren to cross, to walk across
- niederlegen to lay down; to lie down
- verseuchen to contaminate
- posieren to pose
- streamen to stream
- schikanieren to bully, to harass
- abwerfen to throw down, to let fall, drop (from a height); to throw off (e.g. a yoke, a rider)
- aufschlitzen to slit open
- stocken to stop, to attain stagnation or cease to proceed; to stagnate, to have no progress
- zerschmettern to smash; to smash up
- behüten to protect
- überfluten to flood
- wiedergeben to give back, to return (something to its rightful or previous owner); to render, to…
- unterlaufen to circumvent, to undermine; to crop up, to be made (of a mistake or error) [with dative…
- jaulen to yelp, to howl, to yowl (sound of a canine or a similar sound)
- einlösen to redeem; to cash
- entlarven to unmask; to uncover
- einweisen to brief, instruct; to take to a medical facility, to commit
- zocken to gamble; to play video games (sometimes extended to card games)
- zutrauen to think [with dative ‘someone’] capable; not to put it past [with dative ‘someone’] to do
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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