Hallo zusammen,

I have created a course on Memrise of 500 verbs sorted by frequency from subtitles extracted from TV programmes and films. As media can be rather dramatic, there are perhaps more words for killing and shooting than you would need in real life but but I think it gives an overall good impression of verb usage. Here is the course:

https://www.memrise.com/course/1552402/500-verbs-sorted-by-frequency-from-tv/

Or if you just want the Excel file, here is that:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/04gtqqnzsj8zuxw/Verbs%20Frequency%20List.xlsx?dl=0

Originally compiled from here:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/User:Matthias_Buchmeier/German_frequency_list-1-5000