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einfallen — to occur, to come to mind, to remember, to collapse, to invade in German

verbB1
Pronunciation

/ˈainfalən/

Quick Facts

Level

B1

Frequency

59/100

Source Rank

#1,137

Word Family

Connected forms and compounds detected from the corpus.

Einfall Family3 wordsB1 2Unleveled 1Adjective 1Noun 1Verb 1

Example Sentences

Es wird gleich einfallen.

It's going to collapse.

Es würde mir nie einfallen, so etwas zu sagen.

It would never have occurred to me to say anything like that.

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