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German preposition · CEFR A2

gegen

Meaning in English: against; around (time)

Rank 70 of 5,000prepositionLevel A2
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Example

Ich komme so gegen sieben nach Hause.

I'll get home around seven.

How common is gegen?

gegen is number 70 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 1,245 times per million words — about once every 800 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 41% 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

  1. 66gibtgives; there is/are (es gibt)
  2. 67alleall, everyone
  3. 68dannthen
  4. 69Menschenpeople, human beings
  5. 70gegenagainst; around (time)
  6. 71sowieas well as, and also
  7. 72ihryou (plural); her; to her
  8. 73vomfrom the, of the (von + dem)
  9. 74dabeiwith it; in doing so; present

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