German adjective · CEFR B2
damaligen
Meaning in English: then, of that time
This is a form of damalig, which is not in the top 5,000 on its own — its other forms in the list are damalige.
Example
Mit meinem damaligen Freund war ich in Rom.
I went to Rome with my boyfriend at the time.
How common is damaligen?
damaligen is number 3,018 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 29 times per million words — about once every 35,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 74% 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
- 3,014israelischeIsraeli
- 3,015angelegtlaid out, created, invested
- 3,016örtlichenlocal
- 3,017erzielteachieved, scored
- 3,018damaligenthen, of that time
- 3,019gefährdetendangered, at risk
- 3,020Kolleginnen(female) colleagues
- 3,021die Freizeitfree time, leisure
- 3,022griffgrabbed, reached for
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,018
- The most common German adjectives#500
- German B2 vocabulary#611
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