German adverb · CEFR A2
sofort
Meaning in English: immediately, right away
Example
Komm bitte sofort nach Hause!
Please come home right away!
How common is sofort?
sofort is number 552 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 162 times per million words — about once every 6,200 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 59% 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
- 548die Gruppegroup
- 549das Alterage
- 550erneutagain, once more
- 551langlong
- 552sofortimmediately, right away
- 553schließlichfinally, after all
- 554bislangso far, until now
- 555alleinalone; only
- 556digitaledigital
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#552
- The 5,000 most common German words#552
- German A2 vocabulary#143
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