gesetzlich
Meaning in English: legal, statutory
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Das ist gesetzlich verboten.
That is prohibited by law.
Forms of gesetzlich in the top 5,000
These forms of gesetzlich are in the top 5,000 as well — German adds endings for gender, case and number:
Er ist in der gesetzlichen Krankenkasse versichert.
He has statutory health insurance.
Die gesetzliche Krankenkasse zahlt die Behandlung.
Statutory health insurance pays for the treatment.
How common is gesetzlich?
gesetzlich is number 2,385 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 38 times per million words — about once every 27,000 words. Its most frequent form is gesetzlichen (#1,262).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 72% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,381weitgehendlargely, to a great extent
- 2,382historischehistoric, historical (inflected)
- 2,383gesundhealthy
- 2,384nachhaltigensustainable (inflected)
- 2,385gesetzlichlegal, statutory
- 2,386der Schnittcut; average (im Schnitt)
- 2,387die Abteilungdepartment
- 2,388produziertproduced
- 2,389besitzento own, to possess
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,385
- The most common German adjectives#365
- German B2 vocabulary#422
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