German adjective · CEFR A2
sauer
Meaning in English: sour; annoyed
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Feelings and emotions in German list.
Example
Bist du etwa sauer auf mich?
Are you annoyed with me?
How common is sauer?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, sauer appears 9.5 times per million words — about once every 100,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
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