German adjective · CEFR B2
ehemaligen
Meaning in English: former
This is a form of ehemalig, which is not in the top 5,000 on its own — its other forms in the list are ehemalige.
Example
Gestern habe ich einen ehemaligen Kollegen getroffen.
Yesterday I met a former colleague.
How common is ehemaligen?
ehemaligen is number 1,063 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. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,059gesehenseen
- 1,060das Zentrumcentre
- 1,061Wegeways, paths
- 1,062Schülernpupils, students (dative)
- 1,063ehemaligenformer
- 1,064sofernprovided that, if
- 1,065der Anschlussconnection
- 1,066gesagtsaid
- 1,067egalall the same, doesn't matter
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,063
- The most common German adjectives#146
- German B2 vocabulary#124
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.