verstehen

A1 Verb frequency rank #409

What verstehen means

Verb

to understand
to hear and interpret (speech)
to comprehend, to make sense of
to take, to interpret, to gather (to impute what is not explicitly stated)

Forms

verstehen · versteht · verstand · hat verstanden (+ Akkusativ; mit + Dativ; auf + Akkusativ)

Pronunciation

verstehen in a sentence

Gibt es etwas, was Sie nicht verstanden haben?

Is there anything that you didn't understand?

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verstehen is A1 German — one of the first words a beginner meets, ranked #409 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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