fair
Meaning in English: fair
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
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Das finde ich nicht fair!
I don't think that's fair!
Forms of fair in the top 5,000
These forms of fair are in the top 5,000 as well — German adds endings for gender, case and number:
Wir zahlen hier einen fairen Preis.
We pay a fair price here.
Das war keine faire Entscheidung vom Schiedsrichter.
That wasn't a fair decision by the referee.
How common is fair?
fair is number 3,506 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 24 times per million words — about once every 41,000 words. Its most frequent form is fairen (#3,191).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% 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
- 3,502Kooperationenpartnerships, cooperations
- 3,503das Tablettablet (computer)
- 3,504schlughit, beat; struck
- 3,505reichrich
- 3,506fairfair
- 3,507Umfragensurveys, polls
- 3,508spannendenexciting, gripping
- 3,509der Experteexpert
- 3,510erfassento record, to register; to grasp
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,506
- The most common German adjectives#594
- German A2 vocabulary#751
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.