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German adverb · CEFR C1

hinweg

Meaning in English: over, across (with über)

Rank 2,375 of 5,000adverbLevel C1
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Example

Über Jahre hinweg haben sie kein Wort gewechselt.

For years they didn't exchange a word.

How common is hinweg?

hinweg is number 2,375 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 38 times per million words — about once every 26,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 72% of the words in an ordinary German text. C1 means an advanced word, mostly met in formal or written German.

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 2,371globalenglobal (inflected)
  2. 2,372das Gasgas
  3. 2,373das Augeeye
  4. 2,374der Aufwandeffort, expense
  5. 2,375hinwegover, across (with über)
  6. 2,376fertigready, finished, done
  7. 2,377bestimmento determine, to decide
  8. 2,378jenethose, that (formal)
  9. 2,379sicheresafe, secure (inflected)

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