gefährlich
Meaning in English: dangerous
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Bei Glatteis ist Radfahren gefährlich.
Cycling is dangerous when the roads are icy.
Forms of gefährlich in the top 5,000
These forms of gefährlich are in the top 5,000 as well — German adds endings for gender, case and number:
Das ist eine gefährliche Kurve, fahr langsam!
That's a dangerous bend, drive slowly!
How common is gefährlich?
gefährlich is number 2,347 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 39 times per million words — about once every 26,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 72% 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
- 2,343jeweiligerespective
- 2,344das Goldgold
- 2,345angenommenaccepted; assumed; supposing
- 2,346interessantinteresting
- 2,347gefährlichdangerous
- 2,348Forderungendemands, claims
- 2,349besserenbetter (inflected)
- 2,350Kandidatencandidates
- 2,351die Ausstattungequipment, furnishings, features
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,347
- The most common German adjectives#354
- German A2 vocabulary#538
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.