positiv
Meaning in English: positive
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
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Der Test war zum Glück nicht positiv.
Luckily the test wasn't positive.
Forms of positiv in the top 5,000
These forms of positiv are in the top 5,000 as well — German adds endings for gender, case and number:
Wir haben nur positive Rückmeldungen bekommen.
We only got positive feedback.
Danke für die vielen positiven Rückmeldungen!
Thanks for all the positive feedback!
Das ist ein positives Zeichen.
That's a positive sign.
How common is positiv?
positiv is number 1,173 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 77 times per million words — about once every 13,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 66% 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
- 1,169das Wortword
- 1,170berichtetereported
- 1,171die Vergangenheitpast
- 1,172russischeRussian
- 1,173positivpositive
- 1,174Interesseninterests
- 1,175ziehtpulls, moves
- 1,176umgesetztimplemented, put into practice
- 1,177wederneither
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,173
- The most common German adjectives#161
- German B1 vocabulary#340
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.