German adjective · CEFR B1
golden
Meaning in English: golden, gold
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Colours in German list.
Example
Die Blätter leuchten golden in der Sonne.
The leaves glow golden in the sun.
How common is golden?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, golden appears 5.7 times per million words — about once every 180,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
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