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German conjunction · CEFR B2

beziehungsweise

Meaning in English: or rather, respectively

Rank 1,454 of 5,000conjunctionLevel B2
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Example

Ich komme morgen beziehungsweise übermorgen vorbei.

I'll drop by tomorrow, or rather the day after.

How common is beziehungsweise?

beziehungsweise is number 1,454 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 63 times per million words — about once every 16,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 68% 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. 1,450vermittelnto convey, to arrange, to mediate
  2. 1,451wiederumin turn, on the other hand
  3. 1,452der Waldforest, woods
  4. 1,453die Leitungmanagement, line, pipe
  5. 1,454beziehungsweiseor rather, respectively
  6. 1,455verfügbaravailable
  7. 1,456höherhigher
  8. 1,457der Kaufpurchase
  9. 1,458beruflichenprofessional, vocational

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