fest
Meaning in English: firm, solid, fixed
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Halt dich gut fest!
Hold on tight!
Forms of fest in the top 5,000
These forms of fest are in the top 5,000 as well — German adds endings for gender, case and number:
Sie hat seit kurzem einen festen Freund.
She recently got a steady boyfriend.
Hast du eine feste Freundin?
Do you have a steady girlfriend?
Ist das schon ein fester Termin?
Is that a fixed appointment yet?
How common is fest?
fest is number 416 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 212 times per million words — about once every 4,700 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 57% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Related words in the list
Words built on fest:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 412die Geschichtehistory; story
- 413die Rollerole, part; roll
- 414erfolgttakes place, is carried out
- 415der Anfangbeginning, start
- 416festfirm, solid, fixed
- 417meinemy
- 418klarclear; sure, of course
- 419die Straßestreet, road
- 420der Grundreason; ground
In these word lists
- The 500 most common German words#416
- The 1,000 most common German words#416
- The 5,000 most common German words#416
- The most common German adjectives#38
- German B1 vocabulary#71
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.