blau
Meaning in English: blue
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Colours in German list.
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Der Himmel ist heute ganz blau.
The sky is completely blue today.
Forms of blau in the top 5,000
blau itself is not in the top 5,000, but this form of it is:
Sie trägt heute ihren blauen Mantel.
She's wearing her blue coat today.
How common is blau?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, blau appears 13 times per million words — about once every 76,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million. Its form blauen (#4,147) is in the top 5,000, though.
A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
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