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German determiner · CEFR B1

gewisse

Meaning in English: certain

Rank 2,988 of 5,000determinerLevel B1

This is a form of gewiss, which is not in the top 5,000 on its own — its other forms in the list are gewissen.

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Example

Das braucht eine gewisse Zeit.

That takes a certain amount of time.

How common is gewisse?

gewisse is number 2,988 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 29 times per million words — about once every 34,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 74% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 2,984die Einheitunit, unity
  2. 2,985entsprechento correspond to, to match
  3. 2,986Konzerteconcerts
  4. 2,987der Verlagpublisher, publishing house
  5. 2,988gewissecertain
  6. 2,989die Halbzeithalf-time, half
  7. 2,990israelischenIsraeli
  8. 2,991das Formularform
  9. 2,992Mitarbeitendenemployees, staff

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