German adverb · CEFR A2
gerade
Meaning in English: just, right now; straight
Example
Ich bin gerade beim Kochen.
I'm cooking right now.
How common is gerade?
gerade is number 241 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 358 times per million words — about once every 2,800 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 52% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
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