German number · CEFR A1
fünfzig
Meaning in English: fifty
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Numbers in German list.
Example
In der Stadt darf man nur fünfzig fahren.
In town you can only drive at fifty.
How common is fünfzig?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, fünfzig appears 2.9 times per million words — about once every 350,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
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