German adverb · CEFR B1
überhaupt
Meaning in English: at all, anyway
Example
Hast du überhaupt Hunger?
Are you even hungry?
How common is überhaupt?
überhaupt is number 726 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 125 times per million words — about once every 8,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 62% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 722die Praxispractice; doctor's surgery
- 723der Bürgercitizen(s)
- 724demnachaccordingly, so, according to that
- 725läuftruns, walks; is on (TV)
- 726überhauptat all, anyway
- 727der Besuchvisit; visitors
- 728erforderlichrequired, necessary
- 729freifree, vacant
- 730Studierendestudents
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#726
- The 5,000 most common German words#726
- German B1 vocabulary#178
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