German adjective · CEFR A2
scharf
Meaning in English: sharp, spicy
Example
Vorsicht, das Messer ist sehr scharf.
Careful, the knife is very sharp.
How common is scharf?
scharf is number 4,309 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 19 times per million words — about once every 53,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% 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
- 4,305verschwindento disappear, to vanish
- 4,306tollgreat, fantastic
- 4,307gelöstsolved
- 4,308verteidigento defend
- 4,309scharfsharp, spicy
- 4,310ähnlichensimilar
- 4,311unmöglichimpossible
- 4,312das Ausmaßextent, scale
- 4,313der Führerscheindriving licence
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