direkt
Meaning in English: direct; directly, right
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
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Die Haltestelle ist direkt vor dem Haus.
The stop is right in front of the house.
Forms of direkt in the top 5,000
These forms of direkt are in the top 5,000 as well — German adds endings for gender, case and number:
Gibt es einen direkten Zug nach Wien?
Is there a direct train to Vienna?
Gibt es eine direkte Verbindung nach Wien?
Is there a direct connection to Vienna?
How common is direkt?
direkt is number 290 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 296 times per million words — about once every 3,400 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 53% 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
- 286die Zukunftfuture
- 287zurückback
- 288bietento offer
- 289die Elternparents
- 290direktdirect; directly, right
- 291der Platzplace, seat; space; square
- 292natürlichof course; natural
- 293die Wocheweek
- 294proper; for, pro
In these word lists
- The 500 most common German words#290
- The 1,000 most common German words#290
- The 5,000 most common German words#290
- The most common German adjectives#23
- German A2 vocabulary#64
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.