German adjective · CEFR A2
linken
Meaning in English: left; left-wing
This is a form of link, which is not in the top 5,000 on its own — its other forms in the list are linke.
Example
Er schreibt mit der linken Hand.
He writes with his left hand.
How common is linken?
linken is number 1,787 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 51 times per million words — about once every 19,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 70% 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
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,787
- The most common German adjectives#264
- German A2 vocabulary#418
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.