gelb
Meaning in English: yellow
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Colours in German list.
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Die Bananen sind noch nicht ganz gelb.
The bananas aren't quite yellow yet.
Forms of gelb in the top 5,000
gelb itself is not in the top 5,000, but this form of it is:
Die gelbe Tonne wird morgen abgeholt.
The yellow bin is collected tomorrow.
How common is gelb?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, gelb appears 10 times per million words — about once every 99,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million. Its form gelbe (#4,937) is in the top 5,000, though.
A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
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