German adjective · CEFR A1

kalt

Meaning in English: cold

Basic word, outside the top 5,000adjectiveLevel A11 form in the top 5,000

Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Weather in German list.

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Example

Heute ist es draußen richtig kalt.

It's really cold outside today.

Forms of kalt in the top 5,000

kalt itself is not in the top 5,000, but this form of it is:

kalten#4,821
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An kalten Tagen trinke ich gern Tee.
On cold days I like to drink tea.

How common is kalt?

In the news and web texts the list is counted from, kalt appears 15 times per million words — about once every 67,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million. Its form kalten (#4,821) is in the top 5,000, though.

A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.

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