künftig
Meaning in English: in future; future
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Künftig fährt der Bus alle zehn Minuten.
In future the bus will run every ten minutes.
Forms of künftig in the top 5,000
These forms of künftig are in the top 5,000 as well — German adds endings for gender, case and number:
Die künftige Chefin stellt sich morgen vor.
The future boss is introducing herself tomorrow.
Wir wünschen dir alles Gute für deinen künftigen Weg.
We wish you all the best for the future.
How common is künftig?
künftig is number 701 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 129 times per million words — about once every 7,800 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 61% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 697der Preisprice; prize
- 698der Abschlussdegree, qualification; end
- 699beachtennote, observe, pay attention to
- 700dagegenagainst it; on the other hand
- 701künftigin future; future
- 702Fällencases (dative plural)
- 703der Antragapplication, request
- 704das Gebäudebuilding
- 705das Wochenendeweekend
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Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.