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German preposition · CEFR A1

bei

Meaning in English: at, near, with (someone's place)

Rank 25 of 5,000prepositionLevel A1
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Example

Heute Abend essen wir bei meinen Eltern.

Tonight we're eating at my parents' place.

How common is bei?

bei is number 25 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 5,020 times per million words — about once every 200 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 29% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 21demthe (dative, masc./neut.)
  2. 22nichtnot
  3. 23werdento become; will (future)
  4. 24anat, on, to
  5. 25beiat, near, with (someone's place)
  6. 26alsas; than; when (past)
  7. 27sindare
  8. 28amat the, on the (an + dem)
  9. 29ausfrom, out of; made of

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