interessant
Meaning in English: interesting
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
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Das Buch ist wirklich interessant.
The book is really interesting.
Forms of interessant in the top 5,000
These forms of interessant are in the top 5,000 as well — German adds endings for gender, case and number:
Das ist eine interessante Idee.
That's an interesting idea.
How common is interessant?
interessant is number 2,346 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 39 times per million words — about once every 26,000 words. Its most frequent form is interessante (#2,327).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 72% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,342cmcm (centimetre/s)
- 2,343jeweiligerespective
- 2,344das Goldgold
- 2,345angenommenaccepted; assumed; supposing
- 2,346interessantinteresting
- 2,347gefährlichdangerous
- 2,348Forderungendemands, claims
- 2,349besserenbetter (inflected)
- 2,350Kandidatencandidates
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,346
- The most common German adjectives#353
- German A1 vocabulary#572
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.