German adjective · CEFR B1

offiziell

Meaning in English: official(ly)

Rank 1,789 of 5,000adjectiveLevel B13 forms in the list
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Example

Jetzt ist es offiziell: Wir heiraten!

Now it's official: we're getting married!

Forms of offiziell in the top 5,000

These forms of offiziell are in the top 5,000 as well — German adds endings for gender, case and number:

offiziellen#2,510
officialB1

Die offiziellen Zahlen kommen erst morgen.
The official figures won't come until tomorrow.

offizielle#3,033
officialB1

Die offizielle Antwort kommt erst nächste Woche.
The official reply won't come until next week.

How common is offiziell?

offiziell is number 1,789 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 51 times per million words — about once every 19,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 70% 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

  1. 1,785betreutlooked after, supervised
  2. 1,786das Gesichtface
  3. 1,787linkenleft; left-wing
  4. 1,788Infosinfo, information
  5. 1,789offiziellofficial(ly)
  6. 1,790der Regenrain
  7. 1,791lösento solve, to buy (a ticket)
  8. 1,792der Begriffterm, concept
  9. 1,793glaube(I) believe, think

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