German conjunction · CEFR B1
nachdem
Meaning in English: after (conjunction)
Example
Nachdem wir gegessen hatten, gingen wir ins Kino.
After we had eaten, we went to the cinema.
How common is nachdem?
nachdem is number 529 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 171 times per million words — about once every 5,800 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 59% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
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- The 1,000 most common German words#529
- The 5,000 most common German words#529
- German B1 vocabulary#101
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