German adverb · CEFR B2
parallel
Meaning in English: parallel; at the same time
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Sie arbeitet und studiert parallel.
She works and studies at the same time.
How common is parallel?
parallel is number 2,247 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 40 times per million words — about once every 25,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 72% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,243passierento happen
- 2,244reagiertreacted, responded
- 2,245ansto the, at the (an + das)
- 2,246Produktenproducts (dative plural)
- 2,247parallelparallel; at the same time
- 2,248Bankenbanks
- 2,249Anwendungenapplications, uses
- 2,250das Hotelhotel
- 2,251eingeführtintroduced; imported
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Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.