echt
Meaning in English: real, genuine, really
Add echt and its 2 forms to your reviews. Progress stays in this browser.
Test my vocabularyExample
Das Essen war echt lecker!
The food was really delicious!
Forms of echt in the top 5,000
These forms of echt are in the top 5,000 as well — German adds endings for gender, case and number:
Das ist eine echte Überraschung!
That's a real surprise!
Das ist ein Ring aus echtem Gold mit echten Steinen.
This is a ring of real gold with genuine stones.
How common is echt?
echt is number 3,823 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 22 times per million words — about once every 46,000 words. Its most frequent form is echte (#2,450).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% 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
- 3,819Drogendrugs
- 3,820das Militärmilitary, armed forces
- 3,821lerntlearns, studies
- 3,822das Bierbeer
- 3,823echtreal, genuine, really
- 3,824tausendthousand
- 3,825kommunizierento communicate
- 3,826die Lehrkraftteacher (formal)
- 3,827qualifiziertequalified
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,823
- The most common German adjectives#662
- German A2 vocabulary#801
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.