German preposition · CEFR B2
dank
Meaning in English: thanks to
Example
Dank deiner Hilfe war ich pünktlich fertig.
Thanks to your help I finished on time.
How common is dank?
dank is number 577 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 153 times per million words — about once every 6,600 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 60% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
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