nehmen

A1 Verb frequency rank #216

What nehmen means

Verb

to take (something into one's possession or on one's body)
to take from
to hold (in one's hands), to grasp
to take, to consider (a statement, a situation, an idea, etc, in a certain way, for example seriously, badly, personally)

Forms

nehmen · nimmt · nahm · hat genommen (+ Akkusativ)

Pronunciation

nehmen in a sentence

Ich nehme ein Stück Kuchen.

I will take a piece of cake.

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nehmen is A1 German — one of the first words a beginner meets, ranked #216 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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