German adjective · CEFR B1

überraschend

Meaning in English: surprising, unexpectedly

Rank 2,272 of 5,000adjectiveLevel B1

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Example

Mein Onkel kam gestern ganz überraschend zu Besuch.
My uncle dropped by quite unexpectedly yesterday.

How common is überraschend?

überraschend is number 2,272 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 40 times per million words — about once every 25,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 72% 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

2,268die Informatikcomputer science
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2,270höchstehighest, top (inflected)
2,271getötetkilled
2,272überraschendsurprising, unexpectedly
2,273vielerof many (genitive)
2,274Einblickeinsights, glimpses
2,275der Ansatzapproach; beginning
2,276gehabthad (past participle)

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