Example
Das ist die Meinung einzelner Kollegen, nicht aller.
That's the opinion of a few colleagues, not all of them.
How common is einzelner?
einzelner is number 3,996 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 21 times per million words — about once every 48,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% 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
- 3,992der DonnerstagabendThursday evening
- 3,993Websiteswebsites
- 3,994effektiveffective
- 3,995anstattinstead of
- 3,996einzelnerindividual, single (inflected)
- 3,997weltweitenworldwide, global
- 3,998gelesenread (past participle)
- 3,999tollengreat, wonderful
- 4,000schlafento sleep
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,996
- The most common German adjectives#699
- German B2 vocabulary#908
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.