leicht
Meaning in English: easy, light
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Die Aufgabe ist ziemlich leicht.
The exercise is fairly easy.
Forms of leicht in the top 5,000
These forms of leicht are in the top 5,000 as well — German adds endings for gender, case and number:
Mit dem Fahrrad ist es viel leichter.
It's much easier by bike.
Das war eine leichte Aufgabe.
That was an easy task.
Ich habe einen leichten Schnupfen.
I have a slight cold.
How common is leicht?
leicht is number 530 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 171 times per million words — about once every 5,800 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 59% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
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In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#530
- The 5,000 most common German words#530
- The most common German adjectives#57
- German A2 vocabulary#134
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.