eigentlich
Meaning in English: actually, really
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Eigentlich wollte ich heute früh ins Bett.
Actually I wanted to go to bed early today.
Forms of eigentlich in the top 5,000
These forms of eigentlich are in the top 5,000 as well — German adds endings for gender, case and number:
Kommen wir jetzt zum eigentlichen Thema.
Let's get to the actual topic now.
How common is eigentlich?
eigentlich is number 401 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 223 times per million words — about once every 4,500 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 56% 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
- 397eigeneown
- 398gehörtbelongs; heard
- 399die Regionregion
- 400zuletztlast, most recently; finally
- 401eigentlichactually, really
- 402mindestensat least
- 403der MaiMay
- 404helfento help
- 405garat all (gar nicht); even
In these word lists
- The 500 most common German words#401
- The 1,000 most common German words#401
- The 5,000 most common German words#401
- German A2 vocabulary#97
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.