Example
Er ist deutscher Staatsbürger.
He is a German citizen.
How common is deutscher?
deutscher is number 1,298 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 70 times per million words — about once every 14,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 67% 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
- 1,294genanntcalled, named, mentioned
- 1,295die Tatdeed, act, crime
- 1,296die Nachfragedemand, enquiry
- 1,297FrankreichFrance
- 1,298deutscherGerman
- 1,299spätestensat the latest
- 1,300bewusstconscious(ly), aware
- 1,301die Herausforderungchallenge
- 1,302Freundefriends
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,298
- The most common German adjectives#185
- German A1 vocabulary#415
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.