German adjective · CEFR A2
egal
Meaning in English: all the same, doesn't matter
Example
Pizza oder Pasta, mir ist das egal.
Pizza or pasta, it's all the same to me.
How common is egal?
egal is number 1,067 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 85 times per million words — about once every 12,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 65% 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
- 1,063ehemaligenformer
- 1,064sofernprovided that, if
- 1,065der Anschlussconnection
- 1,066gesagtsaid
- 1,067egalall the same, doesn't matter
- 1,068betonteemphasised, stressed
- 1,069gerngladly, like to
- 1,070die Anzahlnumber, quantity
- 1,071solchensuch (inflected)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,067
- The most common German adjectives#147
- German A2 vocabulary#257
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