German preposition · CEFR A2
durch
Meaning in English: through; by (means of)
Example
Wir sind durch den Park gelaufen.
We walked through the park.
How common is durch?
durch is number 51 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 2,227 times per million words — about once every 450 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 38% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
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