German adjective · CEFR A1
lila
Meaning in English: purple, lilac
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Colours in German list.
Example
Die Blumen im Garten sind lila.
The flowers in the garden are purple.
How common is lila?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, lila appears 2.4 times per million words — about once every 420,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
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