beide
Meaning in English: both
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Beide Kinder spielen Klavier.
Both children play the piano.
Forms of beide in the top 5,000
These forms of beide are in the top 5,000 as well — German adds endings for gender, case and number:
Die beiden kennen sich schon lange.
The two of them have known each other for a long time.
Die Meinung beider Eltern ist ihm wichtig.
Both his parents' opinions matter to him.
How common is beide?
beide is number 436 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 201 times per million words — about once every 5,000 words. Its most frequent form is beiden (#212).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 57% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 432das Haushouse; building
- 433meistenmost
- 434die Gesellschaftsociety; company
- 435jedeevery, each (feminine)
- 436beideboth
- 437der JuliJuly
- 438die Bildungeducation; formation
- 439die Höheheight; level, amount
- 440verschiedenevarious, different
In these word lists
- The 500 most common German words#436
- The 1,000 most common German words#436
- The 5,000 most common German words#436
- German A2 vocabulary#108
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.