German noun, masculine · CEFR A2
Kollegen
Meaning in English: colleagues; colleague (acc./dat.)
This is a form of Kollege, which is not in the top 5,000 on its own.
Example
Meine Kollegen sind sehr hilfsbereit.
My colleagues are very helpful.
How common is Kollegen?
Kollegen is number 975 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 92 times per million words — about once every 11,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 64% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 971Gemeindenmunicipalities, communities
- 972richtigeright, correct
- 973der Graddegree
- 974darseparable part of darstellen etc.
- 975Kollegencolleagues; colleague (acc./dat.)
- 976erzählttold; tells
- 977politischenpolitical
- 978der Täterperpetrator, offender
- 979das Mitgliedmember
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#975
- The 5,000 most common German words#975
- The most common German nouns#339
- German A2 vocabulary#237
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