German conjunction · CEFR A2
ob
Meaning in English: whether, if
Example
Weißt du, ob der Supermarkt noch offen ist?
Do you know whether the supermarket is still open?
How common is ob?
ob is number 131 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 664 times per million words — about once every 1,500 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 47% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
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In these word lists
- The 500 most common German words#131
- The 1,000 most common German words#131
- The 5,000 most common German words#131
- German A2 vocabulary#17
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