German adjective · CEFR B1
einsam
Meaning in English: lonely
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Feelings and emotions in German list.
Example
In der neuen Stadt fühlt sie sich einsam.
She feels lonely in the new city.
How common is einsam?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, einsam appears 5.0 times per million words — about once every 200,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
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