eng
Meaning in English: narrow, tight, close
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Die Hose ist mir leider zu eng.
Unfortunately the trousers are too tight for me.
Forms of eng in the top 5,000
These forms of eng are in the top 5,000 as well — German adds endings for gender, case and number:
Die beiden sind enge Freunde seit der Schule.
The two have been close friends since school.
Die Hose ist mir inzwischen enger geworden.
These trousers have got tighter on me.
Wir liefen durch die engen Gassen der Altstadt.
We walked through the narrow lanes of the old town.
How common is eng?
eng is number 1,344 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 68 times per million words — about once every 15,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 67% 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
- 1,340Kompetenzenskills, competences
- 1,341maximalat most, maximum
- 1,342die Bewerbungapplication (job)
- 1,343gefragtasked; in demand
- 1,344engnarrow, tight, close
- 1,345der Serviceservice
- 1,346entstandenarisen, created
- 1,347erlaubtallowed, permitted
- 1,348die Wirkungeffect
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,344
- The most common German adjectives#191
- German A2 vocabulary#313
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.