German adjective · CEFR A1
orange
Meaning in English: orange (colour)
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Colours in German list.
Example
Im Herbst werden die Blätter orange.
In autumn the leaves turn orange.
How common is orange?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, orange 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.
A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
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- Colours in German20 words
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