German adjective · CEFR B2
grundlegende
Meaning in English: fundamental, basic
This is a form of grundlegend, which is not in the top 5,000 on its own.
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Das sind grundlegende Fragen, die wir klären müssen.
These are fundamental questions we need to settle.
How common is grundlegende?
grundlegende is number 3,936 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 21 times per million words — about once every 47,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% 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
- 3,932definitivdefinitely
- 3,933günstigencheap, favourable
- 3,934aufzunehmento take in, to record (zu-inf.)
- 3,935Einheitenunits
- 3,936grundlegendefundamental, basic
- 3,937befragtquestioned, surveyed
- 3,938wiesowhy
- 3,939füllento fill
- 3,940die Autorinauthor, writer (female)
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