Thereās no one word list thatās the definitive source, and nobodyās pretending it really IS exactly the top 5000 words used in German, but a fair bit of effort has been put in by various people over the years to keep it close.
If you particularly wanted to learn strong verb endings there are other courses and even other sites online that specialize in that sort of thing.
E.g. this is another course I have contributor rights to after the original author stopped maintaining it:
Hi, in level 93, there is a word āEinstellungā.
My Germany teacher told us that one of the strong meaning of this word is something like becoming employed. I am not sure of the right word in english, something like Employment or Recruitment. What do you think?
In everyday German
, Iād say that the translation āattitudeā (er hat nicht die richtige Einstellung" - he doesnāt have the right attitude) would be one of the most common translations. Iād definitely put it first in the list if it was me doing the English translations.
HenryTheFourth, I agree with Amanda and dict.cc, and moved āattitudeā to the front of the list, though I usually try not to change word orders.
Leland
In the context you mention, sure, āEinstellungenā would mean āsettingsā, like on your phone or computer etc., but it really is limited to that special usage.
Hi, I came across word āĆ¼berfallenā in level 94. You have the meanings āto attackā and āto invadeā. But there could be another meaning, I think āto fall overā or ātrip (over)ā.
Henry
If you did use āfallenā with āĆ¼berā to mean āfall overā, it would be a regular verb plus preposition, not āĆ¼berfallenā.
āAls er im Wald spazieren war, ist er Ć¼ber einen groĆen Baumstamm gefallen.ā
As I wrote that sentence, I wondered if it would be better to say, āist er Ć¼ber einen Baumstamm gestolpert.ā Any input from some native speakers of German, not just fakes like me???
Hello, there is a little issue with word āauĆerhalbā. You have written in brackets something like: ānot drauĆen, or auĆerhalbā.
So itās a little confusing
Dylan, I have contributor rights to 5000 German Words but am unable to edit the word auĆerhalb for some reason. It is definitely there in Level 73. I can edit any other word but not auĆer or auĆerhalb. Can you edit one of those words?
Leland
Can you edit it from that page? It lets me edit it fine, though I didnāt try saving it. At any rate I donāt have any special rights that you donāt.
I think I might have added mixsifRM, he was around for a while but havenāt seen any sign of him recently.
Yes I can edit from that or any page that I can pull up. Not being able to search for some of the German terms is new, and I suspect, a bug (unintended feature). Iāve noticed some other differences also.
Suggestion: How about if we eliminate all of the āKey Holdersā, except for you and me?
Hi, there is another meaning for word āDas Eisā. You have written āiceā, but I think the word āice-creamā is also important. Now in sommer I definitely use the word ice-cream more than ice
Unless thereās some reason to believe somebodyās been editing the course without mentioning it here, donāt see any reason to remove contributors. Sucks that thereās no history that shows whoās edited what.