Example
Endlich habe ich ein eigenes Zimmer.
At last I have my own room.
How common is eigenes?
eigenes is number 1,756 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 52 times per million words — about once every 19,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 70% 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
- 1,752Investitioneninvestments
- 1,753gelingtsucceeds, works out
- 1,754die Übersichtoverview
- 1,755reichento be enough, to pass, to reach
- 1,756eigenesown
- 1,757die Kommissioncommission, committee
- 1,758das Managementmanagement
- 1,759die Nachrichtmessage, news
- 1,760der Streitargument, quarrel, dispute
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,756
- The most common German adjectives#257
- German A2 vocabulary#414
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.