selbst
Meaning in English: oneself, myself etc.; even
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Den Kuchen habe ich selbst gebacken.
I baked the cake myself.
Forms of selbst in the top 5,000
These forms of selbst are in the top 5,000 as well — German adds endings for gender, case and number:
Den Kuchen habe ich selber gebacken.
I baked the cake myself.
How common is selbst?
selbst is number 124 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 696 times per million words — about once every 1,400 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 46% 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
In these word lists
- The 500 most common German words#124
- The 1,000 most common German words#124
- The 5,000 most common German words#124
- German A2 vocabulary#16
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