schwierig
Meaning in English: difficult
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Die Parkplatzsuche ist hier ziemlich schwierig.
Finding a parking space is pretty difficult here.
Forms of schwierig in the top 5,000
These forms of schwierig are in the top 5,000 as well — German adds endings for gender, case and number:
Wir leben in schwierigen Zeiten.
We live in difficult times.
Die zweite Aufgabe war viel schwieriger.
The second task was much more difficult.
Das war eine schwierige Entscheidung.
That was a difficult decision.
How common is schwierig?
schwierig is number 1,763 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 52 times per million words — about once every 19,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 70% 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
- 1,759die Nachrichtmessage, news
- 1,760der Streitargument, quarrel, dispute
- 1,761spannendeexciting, thrilling
- 1,762entgegentowards; contrary to
- 1,763schwierigdifficult
- 1,764gestiegenrisen, increased
- 1,765die Fakultätfaculty (university)
- 1,766vielfältigediverse, varied
- 1,767der Gegneropponent(s)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,763
- The most common German adjectives#259
- German A2 vocabulary#416
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.