Top 100 German verbs

Top 100 German

verbs
by TheGermanProfessor — 54 Comments ↓

This verb list comes from Randall Jones

& Erwin Tschirner’s A Frequency
Dictionary of German. Core Vocabulary
for Learners, which lists the 4034 (!)
most commonly used words in German.
We’ll be doing lots of fun things with this
list with posts in the coming weeks.

See also: Lessons from the Top German

verbs list & Top 500 German words

1. sein to be
2. haben to
have
3. werden to
become
4. können
can, to be
able to
5. müssen
must, to have
to
6. sagen to say
7. machen to do, make
8. geben to give
9. kommen to come
10. sollen should, ought to
11. wollen to want
12. gehen to go
13. wissen to know
14. sehen to see
15. lassen to let, allow, have done
16. stehen to stand
17. finden to find
18. bleiben to stay, remain
19. liegen to lie, be lying
20. heißen to be called
21. denken to think
22. nehmen to take
23. tun to do
24. dürfen may, to be allowed
25. glauben to believe
26. halten to stop, hold
27. nennen to name, to call (a name)
28. mögen to like
29. zeigen to show
30. führen to lead
31. sprechen to speak
32. bringen to bring, take
33. leben to live
34. fahren to drive, ride, go
35. meinen to think, have an opinion
36. fragen to ask
37. kennen to know
38. gelten to be valid
39. stellen to place, set
40. spielen to play
41. arbeiten to work
42. brauchen to need
43. folgen to follow
44. lernen to learn
45. bestehen to exist, insist, pass (an
exam)
46. verstehen to understand
47. setzen to set, put, place
48. bekommen to get, receive
49. beginnen to begin
50. erzählen to narrate, tell
51. versuchen to try, attempt
52. schreiben to write
53. laufen, to run
54. erklären to explain
55. entsprechen to correspond
56. sitzen to sit
57. ziehen to pull, move
58. scheinen to shine, seem, appear
59. fallen to fall
60. gehören to belong
61. entstehen to originate, develop
62. erhalten to receive
63. treffen to meet
64. suchen to search, look for
65. legen to lay, put
66. vor·stellen to introduce, imagine
67. handeln to deal, trade
68. erreichen to achieve, reach
69. tragen to carry, wear
70. schaffen to manage, create
71. lesen to read
72. verlieren to lose
73. dar·stellen to depict, portray
74. erkennen to recognize, admit
75. entwickeln to develop
76. reden to talk
77. aus·sehen to appear, look (a certain
way)
78. erscheinen to appear
79. bilden to form, educate
80. an·fangen to begin
81. erwarten to expect
82. wohnen to live
83. betreffen to affect, concern
84. warten to wait
85. vergehen to elapse; to decay
86. helfen to help
87. gewinnen to win
88. schließen to close
89. fühlen to feel
90. bieten to offer
91. interessierento interest
92. erinnern to remember
93. ergeben to result in
94. an·bieten to offer
95. studieren to study
96. verbinden to connect, link
97. an·sehen to look at, watch
98. fehlen to lack, be missing, be absent
99. bedeuten to mean
100. vergleichen to compare

Related Pages & Posts:

1. Lessons from the Top German
Verbs list
2. Top 500 German words (301-
400)
3. Top 500 German words (401-
500)
4. Top 500 German words
5. Top 500 German words (201-
300)
6. Top 500 German words (101-
200)
7. Top German verbs: Scavenger
hunt
8. studieren vs lernen

54 comments on “Top 100

German verbs”

Ron Isaac says:

September 17, 2013 at 12:02 PM

Great start for vocabulary

improvement. Thanks.

Is there the next 500 or 1500 words

list freely available?

What A1 and A2 reading level books

do you recommend?

Thanks for any reply

Ron Isaac

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TheGermanProfessor says:
September 21, 2013 at 10:39 PM

Unfortunately, not freely

available. They are only available
by purchasing the book. Other
lists based on different corpora
are available, however, e.g. the
2001 word list from the Projekt
Deutscher Wortschatz at the Uni
Leipzig (http://wortschatz.uni-
leipzig.de/html/wliste.html) or the
more recent list put out by the
Institut für Deutsche Sprache
Mannheim (http://www1.ids-
mannheim.de/kl/projekte/method
en/derewo.html). Neither of these
lists are as richly developed as
the Tschirner and Jones
Frequency Dictionary of German
(the source for the above list), but
one or the other may serve your
purpose.

As I am not sure of your location,

I don’t want to recommend a
book you may or may not have
access to. Have you ever
checked out the Learn German
section of the Deutsche Welle
website (http://www.dw.de/learn-
german/s-2469)? There are
several free interactive resources
for learning and practicing
German skills. They are listed by
level and include resources for
Level A1/A2. Maybe you could
find something that would interest
you there.

Viel Spaß beim Weiterlernen!

neeta says:
April 17, 2015 at 3:20 AM

thanks for teaching..

ossama says:
August 11, 2016 at 7:21 AM

great thanks alot

Nicole Ingram says:

January 20, 2014 at 11:34 AM

Very helpful website! Vielen

herzlichen Dank!

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mohan bazarh says:

June 29, 2014 at 4:22 PM

Learn german language level A1

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MOHAMMED ELNAEEM
HASSAN ELNAEEM says:
September 21, 2014 at 7:25 AM

Ich möchte die Vergangenheit und die

Zukunft und die Präsens des Verbs
wissen, wenn erlaubt

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TheGermanProfessor says:
September 22, 2014 at 9:42 PM

Zeitformen des Verbs

PRÄSENS:
(1) Regelmäßige Verben: Infinitiv des
Verbs minus –en + Endungen:
spielen minus -en = spiel-
ich spiele, du spielst, er spielt, wir
spielen, ihr spielt, sie spielen
(2) Unregelmäßige Verben: sein,
haben, werden, wissen,
Modalverben, und Verben mit
Stammwechsel

ZUKUNFT: werden + Infinitiv;

werden ist das konjugierte Verb, der
Infinitiv ist am Satzende
ich werde … spielen, du wirst …
spielen, er wird … spielen
wir werden … spielen, ihr werdet …
spielen, sie werden … spielen

VERGANGENHEIT: haben oder sein

ist das konjugierte Verb, das Partizip
II ist am Satzende
ich habe … gespielt, du hast …
gespielt, er hat … gespielt
wir haben … gespielt, ihr habt …
gespielt, sie haben … gespielt

Diese Erklärung ist etwas vereinfacht,

aber so funktioniert das grob.

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MOHAMMED ELNAEEM
HASSAN ELNAEEM says:
September 26, 2014 at 2:34 AM

Danke sehr

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Shiv says:
December 1, 2014 at 12:31 PM

Danke sehr gut. Tschus Auf

wierdeshen. Super. 1

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Asmaa says:
December 23, 2014 at 3:06 AM

Vielen Dank.

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Adnan says:
December 16, 2015 at 3:27 PM

Thanks teacher

rohan says:
January 14, 2015 at 4:41 AM

please tell me the pastparticiple form

of all the 100verbs

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TheGermanProfessor says:
January 14, 2015 at 11:07 PM

Rohan, the information you are

looking for is here:
http://www.thegermanprofessor.com/l
essons-top-german-verbs-list/
And there is more here:
http://www.thegermanprofessor.com/p
rincipal-parts-german-verbs/

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Maybody says:
February 11, 2015 at 8:04 AM

it is great

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Mohamed says:
February 11, 2015 at 8:36 AM

Vielen Dank !

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Yama says:
February 11, 2015 at 9:12 AM

Ich lerne einfach viel von Ihnen, und

ich finde Ihre Hilfe sehr wichtig und
nützlich!

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van Tifa says:

February 11, 2015 at 9:28 AM

Very good thx

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ahmad smaim says:

February 11, 2015 at 10:26 AM

bitte.
ich brauche deise 100 verben

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Amin says:
January 28, 2016 at 4:26 AM

Danke schon

Isha says:
February 11, 2015 at 12:14 PM

this was exactly what i was looking for

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Isha Thapa says:

February 11, 2015 at 12:16 PM

this is was exactly. ..what i was

looking for ….. great

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TheGermanProfessor says:
February 11, 2015 at 2:00 PM

Danke an alle für die netten

Kommentare. :)

Welche anderen Lernhilfen würden

Sie nützlich finden?

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maged Zahran says:

February 11, 2015 at 10:05 PM

Ihre Hilfe sehr nützlich,

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raphael says:
February 12, 2015 at 12:04 AM

Am ready to lean

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Euna says:
February 12, 2015 at 3:33 AM

Vielen dank!

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meseret tesfaye says:

February 12, 2015 at 6:51 AM

Bitte schnell

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uday says:
February 12, 2015 at 5:30 PM

Very good information

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Stephanie says:
March 30, 2015 at 1:43 PM

Super Auswahl! Sehr gut, um mit

jemanden zu lernen. Vielen Dank für
die viele Arbeit.

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Ahmed Azmi says:

April 30, 2015 at 4:48 PM

Hallo,

I think it is a great site and very

useful. I have a comment on this
page, I think that verbs could have
been grouped in another way, like
similar verbs with different prefixes
grouped together.

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peter says:
May 3, 2015 at 10:14 PM

love deutch

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Nan Chan says:

July 4, 2015 at 7:56 PM

Very helpful.
Vielen Dank

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satya says:
August 22, 2015 at 10:13 AM

sehr gut
sehr gut lehrerin Sie.

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Robert says:
September 8, 2015 at 2:33 PM

Eine Link zu Formen der

unregelmaessigen Verb wuerde einen
Lernenden aus dem Verbloch helfen.

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TheGermanProfessor says:
September 10, 2015 at 9:15 AM

Es steht eine unter der Verbliste

in “Lessons from the Top German
Verbs list”

Donny bones says:

November 13, 2015 at 9:11 PM

Eine hilfreiche Liste

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Paolo says:
November 15, 2015 at 2:28 AM

and where is (be)zahlen, bitte??

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TheGermanProfessor says:
December 2, 2016 at 10:20 AM

Based on the info in Jones &

Tschirner, bezahlen is verb #168
or somewhere in that
neighborhood.

babakordi says:
January 25, 2016 at 8:13 AM

Dankeschön?

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ahmad says:
February 21, 2016 at 2:23 PM

Nice

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bojana says:
March 18, 2016 at 3:34 PM

This is perfect! Danke viel mal… :-)

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gulzaman says:
June 26, 2016 at 6:42 PM

Ich be danke ihnen fur ihr information

Ich mochte mit
treffen.
Ich be danke ihnen ..Herr dammin
herrd? awwi some
Gulzaman

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chike kingsley says:

August 4, 2016 at 7:28 AM

Wie kanne ich lernen Deutsch?

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