German adverb · CEFR A2
minus
Meaning in English: minus
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Heute Nacht sind es minus zehn Grad.
Tonight it's minus ten degrees.
How common is minus?
minus is number 2,776 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 32 times per million words — about once every 31,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 74% 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
- 2,772diversevarious
- 2,773ausgesetztexposed; suspended; abandoned
- 2,774der Rückgangdecline, drop
- 2,775begrenztlimited
- 2,776minusminus
- 2,777enormenormous, enormously
- 2,778die Fortbildungfurther training, course
- 2,779technischtechnical, technically
- 2,780frischfresh
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