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German adverb · CEFR B2

bestens

Meaning in English: very well, excellently

Rank 3,181 of 5,000adverbLevel B2
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Danke, mir geht es bestens.

Thanks, I'm doing very well.

How common is bestens?

bestens is number 3,181 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 27 times per million words — about once every 37,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 75% 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

  1. 3,177anpassento adapt, to adjust
  2. 3,178die Spurtrace, track, lane
  3. 3,179Händenhands (dative plural)
  4. 3,180nochmalagain, once more
  5. 3,181bestensvery well, excellently
  6. 3,182zwingendmandatory, necessarily
  7. 3,183aufgehobenlifted, cancelled; kept
  8. 3,184Symptomesymptoms
  9. 3,185entfernento remove

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