essen
to eat
Ranks #259 by frequency — outside the core hundred, but common in everyday life.
- Type
- verb
- Frequency rank
- #259
- Per million words
- 134
In a sentence
Wir essen um acht.We eat at eight.
Conjugation
Present tense of essen, plus the forms you need to talk about the past.
| ich — I | esse |
|---|---|
| du — you | isst |
| er/sie/es — he / she / it | isst |
| wir — we | essen |
| ihr — you (plural) | esst |
| sie — they | essen |
| Perfect | hat gegessen |
| Simple past | aß |
Forms its perfect tense with haben.
essen is a stem-changing verb: the vowel shifts in the du and er/sie/es forms. Those two are worth memorising separately.
Related words
Other words of the same kind, at nearby frequency:
- verstehen to understand
- trinken to drink
- sprechen to speak
- dürfen may, to be allowed to
- nehmen to take
- wissen to know (a fact)
Practise this word
essen is in the free trainer along with the rest of the list — flashcards, multiple choice, listening practice and spaced review. No account needed.