bunt
Meaning in English: colourful, multicoloured
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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Im Herbst sind die Blätter bunt.
In autumn the leaves are colourful.
Forms of bunt in the top 5,000
bunt itself is not in the top 5,000, but these forms of it are:
Sie trägt gern bunte Kleider.
She likes wearing colourful dresses.
Sie trägt gern Kleider mit bunten Mustern.
She likes wearing dresses with colourful patterns.
How common is bunt?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, bunt appears 13 times per million words — about once every 78,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million. Its forms bunte (#4,702), bunten (#4,941) are in the top 5,000, though.
A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
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