recht
Meaning in English: right; quite, rather
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Da hast du recht.
You're right about that.
Forms of recht in the top 5,000
These forms of recht are in the top 5,000 as well — German adds endings for gender, case and number:
Ich habe mir den rechten Fuß verletzt.
I've hurt my right foot.
How common is recht?
recht is number 407 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 217 times per million words — about once every 4,600 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 56% 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#407
- The 1,000 most common German words#407
- The 5,000 most common German words#407
- German A2 vocabulary#100
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