hart
Meaning in English: hard, tough
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
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Er arbeitet sehr hart für seine Familie.
He works very hard for his family.
Forms of hart in the top 5,000
These forms of hart are in the top 5,000 as well — German adds endings for gender, case and number:
Das war eine harte Woche.
That was a tough week.
How common is hart?
hart is number 2,429 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 37 times per million words — about once every 27,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 72% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,425die Optionoption
- 2,426die Akademieacademy
- 2,427gewährtgranted
- 2,428liefran, went (past)
- 2,429harthard, tough
- 2,430der Stadtteildistrict, part of town
- 2,431Faktorenfactors
- 2,432integriertintegrated
- 2,433der Vorschlagsuggestion, proposal
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,429
- The most common German adjectives#372
- German A2 vocabulary#553
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.