German adjective · CEFR B2
langjährige
Meaning in English: long-standing, long-time
This is a form of langjährig, which is not in the top 5,000 on its own — its other forms in the list are langjährigen.
Example
Sie ist eine langjährige Freundin von mir.
She is a long-time friend of mine.
How common is langjährige?
langjährige is number 3,357 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 25 times per million words — about once every 40,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 75% 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
- 3,353Stationenstations, stops; stages
- 3,354gegenseitigmutual(ly), each other
- 3,355angemeldetregistered, signed up
- 3,356antretento start (a job), to compete, to line up
- 3,357langjährigelong-standing, long-time
- 3,358veröffentlichtenpublished (past tense, plural)
- 3,359Dateienfiles
- 3,360Starsstars, celebrities
- 3,361buchento book
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,357
- The most common German adjectives#564
- German B2 vocabulary#708
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