German preposition · CEFR C1
jenseits
Meaning in English: beyond, on the other side of
Example
Jenseits des Flusses beginnt der Wald.
Beyond the river the forest begins.
How common is jenseits?
jenseits is number 4,731 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 17 times per million words — about once every 59,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% 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
- 4,727Apothekenpharmacies, chemists
- 4,728Dienstesservice (genitive)
- 4,729gewünschtedesired, requested
- 4,730gebürtigenative, born in
- 4,731jenseitsbeyond, on the other side of
- 4,732die Präsidentinpresident (female)
- 4,733die Konzentrationconcentration
- 4,734informierteinformed (past tense)
- 4,735überlassento leave (to sb), to hand over
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