mittlere
Meaning in English: middle, medium, average
This is a form of mittlerer, which is not in the top 5,000 on its own.
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Ich nehme die mittlere Größe.
I'll take the medium size.
Forms of mittlere in the top 5,000
These forms of mittlere are in the top 5,000 as well — German adds endings for gender, case and number:
Die Wohnung liegt in einem der mittleren Stockwerke.
The flat is on one of the middle floors.
How common is mittlere?
mittlere is number 4,640 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 17 times per million words — about once every 58,000 words. Its most frequent form is mittleren (#3,093).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% 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
- 4,636Dingenthings
- 4,637wildwild
- 4,638untersagtprohibited, forbidden
- 4,639verschiedenstenmost diverse, all sorts of
- 4,640mittleremiddle, medium, average
- 4,641die Toleranztolerance
- 4,642fremdeforeign, strange, unfamiliar
- 4,643das Liedsong
- 4,644RussenRussians
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,640
- The most common German adjectives#847
- German B1 vocabulary#1,513
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.