rein
Meaning in English: pure, clean; in (colloquial)
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Test my vocabularyExample
Das Wasser im Bergsee ist ganz rein.
The water in the mountain lake is completely pure.
Forms of rein in the top 5,000
These forms of rein are in the top 5,000 as well — German adds endings for gender, case and number:
Das war reine Zeitverschwendung!
That was a pure waste of time!
How common is rein?
rein is number 1,988 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 46 times per million words — about once every 22,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 71% 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
- 1,984der Eindruckimpression
- 1,985die Impfungvaccination
- 1,986schnellefast, quick (inflected)
- 1,987finanziellenfinancial (inflected)
- 1,988reinpure, clean; in (colloquial)
- 1,989Formenforms, shapes
- 1,990das Produktproduct
- 1,991Kindesof the child (genitive)
- 1,992sorgtecaused, took care (past)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,988
- The most common German adjectives#300
- German B1 vocabulary#630
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.