Example
Sie wohnen in einem modernen Haus.
They live in a modern house.
How common is modernen?
modernen is number 1,732 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 53 times per million words — about once every 19,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 69% 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
- 1,728erhieltreceived
- 1,729die Inflationinflation
- 1,730fordernto demand, to call for
- 1,731der Gastguest
- 1,732modernenmodern
- 1,733vorstellento introduce, to imagine
- 1,734das Fensterwindow
- 1,735nutztuses
- 1,736klareclear
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,732
- The most common German adjectives#252
- German A2 vocabulary#408
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.