German preposition · CEFR A2
pro
Meaning in English: per; for, pro
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Das Zimmer kostet achtzig Euro pro Nacht.
The room costs eighty euros per night.
How common is pro?
pro is number 294 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 292 times per million words — about once every 3,400 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 54% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
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In these word lists
- The 500 most common German words#294
- The 1,000 most common German words#294
- The 5,000 most common German words#294
- German A2 vocabulary#65
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.