German adjective · CEFR A2
nervös
Meaning in English: nervous
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Feelings and emotions in German list.
Example
Vor der Prüfung bin ich immer nervös.
I'm always nervous before an exam.
How common is nervös?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, nervös appears 6.0 times per million words — about once every 170,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
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