German adverb · CEFR A1
los
Meaning in English: off, going on, wrong
Example
Was ist denn los mit dir?
What's wrong with you?
How common is los?
los is number 1,004 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 89 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. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,000unterschiedlichedifferent, various
- 1,001der Hintergrundbackground
- 1,002folgendenfollowing
- 1,003Gruppengroups
- 1,004losoff, going on, wrong
- 1,005nämlichnamely, you see, because
- 1,006entschiedendecided
- 1,007die Verarbeitungprocessing
- 1,008stimmento be right, to vote
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