German adjective · CEFR B2
eigenständig
Meaning in English: independent, on one's own
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Die Kinder sollen lernen, eigenständig zu arbeiten.
The children should learn to work on their own.
How common is eigenständig?
eigenständig is number 4,609 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 17 times per million words — about once every 57,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% 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
- 4,605das Badenbathing, swimming
- 4,606mitteiltinforms, lets know
- 4,607qualifiziertqualified
- 4,608kennenzulernento get to know, to meet (zu-inf.)
- 4,609eigenständigindependent, on one's own
- 4,610öffentlicherpublic
- 4,611zugunstenin favour of, for the benefit of
- 4,612die Öffnungopening
- 4,613hoffentlichhopefully
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