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German determiner · CEFR A2

mehrere

Meaning in English: several

Rank 302 of 5,000determinerLevel A23 forms in the list
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Example

Ich habe es mehrere Male versucht.

I tried it several times.

Forms of mehrere in the top 5,000

These forms of mehrere are in the top 5,000 as well — German adds endings for gender, case and number:

mehreren#741
several (dative)B1

Ich habe es schon mehreren Leuten erzählt.
I've already told several people.

mehrerer#4,068
of several (genitive)B2

Nach Aussage mehrerer Zeugen fuhr das Auto zu schnell.
According to several witnesses the car was going too fast.

How common is mehrere?

mehrere is number 302 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 284 times per million words — about once every 3,500 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 54% 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

  1. 298Schulenschools
  2. 299das Teamteam
  3. 300aufgrunddue to, because of
  4. 301der Mannman; husband
  5. 302mehrereseveral
  6. 303die Fragequestion
  7. 304wenigerless, fewer
  8. 305jayes; (emphasis) after all
  9. 306der SeptemberSeptember

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