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fragen

to ask

Ranks #188 by frequency — outside the core hundred, but common in everyday life.

Type
verb
Frequency rank
#188
Per million words
379

In a sentence

Darf ich etwas fragen?May I ask something?

Conjugation

Present tense of fragen, plus the forms you need to talk about the past.

ich — Ifrage
du — youfragst
er/sie/es — he / she / itfragt
wir — wefragen
ihr — you (plural)fragt
sie — theyfragen
Perfecthat gefragt
Simple pastfragte

Forms its perfect tense with haben.

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