ganz
Meaning in English: quite, whole, entirely
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Das Zimmer ist ganz schön groß.
The room is quite big.
Forms of ganz in the top 5,000
These forms of ganz are in the top 5,000 as well — German adds endings for gender, case and number:
Ich habe die ganze Nacht nicht geschlafen.
I didn't sleep all night.
Wir waren den ganzen Tag am Strand.
We were at the beach all day.
Er hat ein ganzes Brot allein gegessen.
He ate a whole loaf by himself.
How common is ganz?
ganz is number 137 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 638 times per million words — about once every 1,600 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 47% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
Next to it in the frequency list
In these word lists
- The 500 most common German words#137
- The 1,000 most common German words#137
- The 5,000 most common German words#137
- German A1 vocabulary#109
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.