German adverb · CEFR A2
anders
Meaning in English: different(ly), otherwise
Example
Heute sieht die Stadt ganz anders aus.
Today the town looks completely different.
How common is anders?
anders is number 527 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 172 times per million words — about once every 5,800 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 59% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
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In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#527
- The 5,000 most common German words#527
- German A2 vocabulary#133
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