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🇩🇪 German 20 Most Useful Verbs Flashcards

To be, to have, to want, to go: the twenty verbs that power the majority of everyday sentences. This free deck gives you the 20 essential German words with English translations — read them below, then study them properly with spaced-repetition flashcards.

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EnglishGerman (Deutsch)
to besein
to havehaben
to do / makemachen
to gogehen
to comekommen
to wantwollen
to be able tokönnen
to speaksprechen
to eatessen
to drinktrinken
to live (reside)wohnen
to seesehen
to know (facts)wissen
to givegeben
to saysagen
to workarbeiten
to buykaufen
to lovelieben
to sleepschlafen
to takenehmen

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