Example
Das Hotel hat moderne Zimmer mit Balkon.
The hotel has modern rooms with a balcony.
How common is moderne?
moderne is number 1,415 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 65 times per million words — about once every 15,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 68% 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
- 1,411das Zeichensign, signal, character
- 1,412die Dauerduration, length
- 1,413fehlento be missing, to be absent
- 1,414vermitteltarranged, conveyed
- 1,415modernemodern
- 1,416übernommentaken over, adopted
- 1,417der Klimaschutzclimate protection
- 1,418der Namename
- 1,419das Umfeldenvironment, circle, surroundings
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,415
- The most common German adjectives#197
- German A2 vocabulary#330
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.