Example
Sie liest gern Bücher von deutschen Autoren.
She likes reading books by German authors.
How common is deutschen?
deutschen is number 161 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 540 times per million words — about once every 1,900 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 48% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Next to it in the frequency list
In these word lists
- The 500 most common German words#161
- The 1,000 most common German words#161
- The 5,000 most common German words#161
- The most common German adjectives#8
- German A2 vocabulary#25
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.