German particle · CEFR B2
hervor
Meaning in English: forth, out (verb particle)
Example
Unter dem Sofa kam die Katze hervor.
The cat came out from under the sofa.
How common is hervor?
hervor is number 1,809 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 51 times per million words — about once every 20,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 70% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
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