bekannt
Meaning in English: known, well-known; familiar
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Die Stadt ist für ihr Bier bekannt.
The town is known for its beer.
Forms of bekannt in the top 5,000
These forms of bekannt are in the top 5,000 as well — German adds endings for gender, case and number:
Wir waren in einem bekannten Restaurant essen.
We ate at a well-known restaurant.
Plötzlich hörte ich eine bekannte Stimme.
Suddenly I heard a familiar voice.
How common is bekannt?
bekannt is number 365 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 238 times per million words — about once every 4,200 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 55% 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
In these word lists
- The 500 most common German words#365
- The 1,000 most common German words#365
- The 5,000 most common German words#365
- The most common German adjectives#31
- German A2 vocabulary#84
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.