German adverb · CEFR B1
drin
Meaning in English: inside, in it (colloquial)
Example
Was ist denn in der Kiste drin?
What's in the box, then?
How common is drin?
drin is number 4,251 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 19 times per million words — about once every 52,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,247der Krebscancer, crab
- 4,248der Ersatzreplacement, substitute
- 4,249die Berufsausbildungvocational training
- 4,250die Spannungsuspense, tension, voltage
- 4,251drininside, in it (colloquial)
- 4,252herausragendeoutstanding
- 4,253versichertinsured, assured
- 4,254fügteadded (fügte … hinzu)
- 4,255erhöhtenraised, increased
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