German adverb · CEFR A2
deshalb
Meaning in English: that's why, therefore
Example
Es regnet, deshalb nehmen wir das Auto.
It's raining, so we're taking the car.
How common is deshalb?
deshalb is number 251 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 345 times per million words — about once every 2,900 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 52% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
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- The 500 most common German words#251
- The 1,000 most common German words#251
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- German A2 vocabulary#56
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