entscheidend
Meaning in English: decisive, crucial
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Das erste Tor war entscheidend.
The first goal was decisive.
Forms of entscheidend in the top 5,000
These forms of entscheidend are in the top 5,000 as well — German adds endings for gender, case and number:
Das war die entscheidende Frage.
That was the crucial question.
Im entscheidenden Moment hat er den Ball verloren.
He lost the ball at the crucial moment.
How common is entscheidend?
entscheidend is number 1,929 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. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,925Einschränkungenrestrictions, limitations
- 1,926festgestelltfound, established, noticed
- 1,927Europasof Europe, Europe's
- 1,928passendesuitable, matching
- 1,929entscheidenddecisive, crucial
- 1,930fuhrdrove, went
- 1,931die Rechnungbill, invoice
- 1,932der Zugtrain
- 1,933Verantwortlichenthose responsible, people in charge
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,929
- The most common German adjectives#290
- German B2 vocabulary#298
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.