German preposition · CEFR A2
entlang
Meaning in English: along
Example
Gehen Sie die Straße entlang bis zur Ampel.
Go along the street as far as the traffic lights.
How common is entlang?
entlang is number 1,918 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 48 times per million words — about once every 21,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 70% 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
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- 1,915evangelischenProtestant, Evangelical
- 1,916drohtthreatens, looms
- 1,917Herzenhearts; heart (dative)
- 1,918entlangalong
- 1,919geprägtshaped, characterised
- 1,920Fachkräfteskilled workers
- 1,921Präsidentenpresident (acc./dat.), presidents
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