passend
Meaning in English: suitable, matching, exact (change)
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Haben Sie es vielleicht passend?
Do you have the exact change, by any chance?
Forms of passend in the top 5,000
These forms of passend are in the top 5,000 as well — German adds endings for gender, case and number:
Ich suche noch passende Schuhe zum Kleid.
I'm still looking for shoes to go with the dress.
Ich suche noch die passenden Schuhe zum Kleid.
I'm still looking for shoes to match the dress.
How common is passend?
passend is number 4,352 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 19 times per million words — about once every 53,000 words. Its most frequent form is passende (#1,928).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% 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
- 4,348wohinwhere (to)
- 4,349vermisstmisses, missing
- 4,350überlebento survive
- 4,351der Vormittagmorning (before noon)
- 4,352passendsuitable, matching, exact (change)
- 4,353angebotenenoffered
- 4,354die Erholungrest, recovery, relaxation
- 4,355die Schülerinpupil, schoolgirl
- 4,356treibtdrives, pushes; does (sport)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,352
- The most common German adjectives#781
- German B1 vocabulary#1,420
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.