German noun, neuter · CEFR B2
Bedürfnisse
Meaning in English: needs
This is a form of Bedürfnis, which is not in the top 5,000 on its own — its other forms in the list are Bedürfnissen.
Example
Jedes Kind hat andere Bedürfnisse.
Every child has different needs.
How common is Bedürfnisse?
Bedürfnisse is number 2,013 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 46 times per million words — about once every 22,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 71% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,009außenoutside, on the outside
- 2,010Jahrzehntendecades (dative plural)
- 2,011kritisiertcriticised
- 2,012Artenkinds, types, species
- 2,013Bedürfnisseneeds
- 2,014sprachenspoke, talked (past)
- 2,015das Quartalquarter (of a year)
- 2,016unterschiedlichdifferent, varying
- 2,017Diensteservices
In these word lists
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.