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German adjective · CEFR A2

privat

Meaning in English: private(ly)

Rank 3,589 of 5,000adjectiveLevel A23 forms in the list

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Example

Das ist privat, darüber rede ich nicht.

That's private, I don't talk about it.

Forms of privat in the top 5,000

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

privaten#1,280
privateB1

Die Firma hat keinen privaten Parkplatz für Gäste.
The company has no private parking for guests.

private#1,515
privateA2

Das ist eine private Feier.
This is a private party.

How common is privat?

privat is number 3,589 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 23 times per million words — about once every 43,000 words. Its most frequent form is privaten (#1,280).

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 3,585optimiertoptimised
  2. 3,586der Einzugmoving in; entry
  3. 3,587Reaktionenreactions, responses
  4. 3,588untereinanderamong each other, among themselves
  5. 3,589privatprivate(ly)
  6. 3,590die Oppositionopposition
  7. 3,591Mengenquantities, amounts
  8. 3,592studiertstudies; studied
  9. 3,593verlegtmoved, relocated; laid; mislaid

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