German adverb · CEFR B1
mitten
Meaning in English: in the middle of
Example
Das Handy klingelte mitten im Konzert.
The phone rang in the middle of the concert.
How common is mitten?
mitten is number 2,113 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 43 times per million words — about once every 23,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 71% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,109die Rückkehrreturn, homecoming
- 2,110die Aufmerksamkeitattention
- 2,111Dokumentedocuments
- 2,112klassischenclassical, classic (inflected)
- 2,113mittenin the middle of
- 2,114die Technologietechnology
- 2,115Tagesof the day (genitive)
- 2,116dürftenmight, would be allowed; probably
- 2,117der Tischtable
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