German adjective · CEFR B2
fehlende
Meaning in English: missing, lacking
This is a form of fehlend, which is not in the top 5,000 on its own.
Example
Die fehlende Seite habe ich endlich gefunden.
I've finally found the missing page.
How common is fehlende?
fehlende is number 4,007 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 21 times per million words — about once every 48,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% 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
- 4,003die Staatsregierungstate government
- 4,004gesundheitlichenhealth (-related)
- 4,005meinesof my (genitive)
- 4,006staatlichstate, state-run, public
- 4,007fehlendemissing, lacking
- 4,008das Modulmodule
- 4,009langfristigelong-term
- 4,010binnenwithin
- 4,011betreuento look after, to supervise
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,007
- The most common German adjectives#704
- German B2 vocabulary#913
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