folgenden
Meaning in English: following
This is a form of folgend, which is not in the top 5,000 on its own — its other forms in the list are folgende.
Example
Am folgenden Tag fuhren wir weiter nach Rom.
The following day we travelled on to Rome.
How common is folgenden?
folgenden is number 1,002 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 89 times per million words — about once every 11,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 64% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Related words in the list
folgenden is built from folgen (to follow) + die Folge (consequence; episode).
Next to it in the frequency list
- 998das Mittelmeans, remedy, funds
- 999hierbeiin doing so, here
- 1,000unterschiedlichedifferent, various
- 1,001der Hintergrundbackground
- 1,002folgendenfollowing
- 1,003Gruppengroups
- 1,004losoff, going on, wrong
- 1,005nämlichnamely, you see, because
- 1,006entschiedendecided
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,002
- The most common German adjectives#134
- German B1 vocabulary#274
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.