German adjective · CEFR A1
dunkel
Meaning in English: dark
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Colours in German list.
Example
Im Winter wird es früh dunkel.
In winter it gets dark early.
How common is dunkel?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, dunkel appears 10 times per million words — about once every 95,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
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