Example
Sie hat die deutsche Staatsangehörigkeit.
She has German citizenship.
How common is deutsche?
deutsche is number 245 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 352 times per million words — about once every 2,800 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 52% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
Next to it in the frequency list
In these word lists
- The 500 most common German words#245
- The 1,000 most common German words#245
- The 5,000 most common German words#245
- The most common German adjectives#18
- German A1 vocabulary#156
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.