einfallen

B1 Verb frequency rank #3,581

What einfallen means

Verb

to occur to someone; to come to mind
for there to be a memory [with dative ‘to someone’] (idiomatically translated by English remember with the dative object as the subject)
to invade
to collapse, to fall in

Forms

einfallen · fällt ein · fiel ein · ist eingefallen (in + Akkusativ)

Pronunciation

einfallen in a sentence

Sie lassen sich besser schnell etwas einfallen!

You'd better come up with something fast.

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einfallen is B1 German — intermediate vocabulary, ranked #3,581 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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