breit
Meaning in English: wide, broad
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Der Fluss ist hier fast hundert Meter breit.
The river is almost a hundred metres wide here.
Forms of breit in the top 5,000
These forms of breit are in the top 5,000 as well — German adds endings for gender, case and number:
Vor dem Haus verläuft eine breite Straße.
A wide road runs in front of the house.
Wir fuhren auf einer breiten Straße aus der Stadt.
We drove out of town on a wide road.
Die Buchhandlung hat ein breites Angebot.
The bookshop has a wide selection.
How common is breit?
breit is number 2,914 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 30 times per million words — about once every 33,000 words. Its most frequent form is breite (#2,104).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 74% 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
- 2,910Journalistenjournalists
- 2,911die Sammlungcollection
- 2,912der Tourismustourism
- 2,913Diskussionendiscussions, debates
- 2,914breitwide, broad
- 2,915der Stressstress
- 2,916komplettecomplete, entire
- 2,917JapanJapan
- 2,918umgehendimmediately, promptly
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,914
- The most common German adjectives#475
- German A2 vocabulary#638
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.