German noun, masculine · CEFR B1
Nachteile
Meaning in English: disadvantages, drawbacks
This is a form of Nachteil, which is not in the top 5,000 on its own.
Example
Jede Lösung hat Vorteile und Nachteile.
Every solution has advantages and disadvantages.
How common is Nachteile?
Nachteile is number 4,296 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 19 times per million words — about once every 53,000 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
- 4,292niedrigerlower
- 4,293ehrlichhonest, honestly
- 4,294die Berichterstattungreporting, coverage
- 4,295digitalesdigital
- 4,296Nachteiledisadvantages, drawbacks
- 4,297dürfemay, be allowed (subjunctive I)
- 4,298das Originaloriginal
- 4,299überschrittenexceeded, crossed
- 4,300Infektioneninfections
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,296
- The most common German nouns#1,865
- German B1 vocabulary#1,401
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