Example
Die neue Wohnung ist viel moderner als die alte.
The new flat is much more modern than the old one.
How common is moderner?
moderner is number 4,138 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 20 times per million words — about once every 50,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% 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
- 4,134gesunkenfallen, sunk
- 4,135das Abenteueradventure
- 4,136der Regisseur(film) director
- 4,137umfassento comprise, to include
- 4,138modernermore modern; modern (inflected)
- 4,139Ärztendoctors (dative)
- 4,140Seminareseminars, courses
- 4,141die Notegrade, mark; (musical) note
- 4,142erledigento do, to take care of
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,138
- The most common German adjectives#732
- German B1 vocabulary#1,340
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.