German determiner · CEFR A2
meisten
Meaning in English: most
This is a form of meiste, which is not in the top 5,000 on its own.
Example
Die meisten Leute arbeiten bis fünf.
Most people work until five.
How common is meisten?
meisten is number 433 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 202 times per million words — about once every 5,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 57% 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 500 most common German words#433
- The 1,000 most common German words#433
- The 5,000 most common German words#433
- German A2 vocabulary#107
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