German adjective · CEFR B2
sogenannte
Meaning in English: so-called
This is a form of sogenannt, which is not in the top 5,000 on its own — its other forms in the list are sogenannten.
Example
Im Keller steht eine sogenannte Wärmepumpe.
There's a so-called heat pump in the basement.
How common is sogenannte?
sogenannte is number 867 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 102 times per million words — about once every 9,800 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 63% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#867
- The 5,000 most common German words#867
- The most common German adjectives#107
- German B2 vocabulary#88
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.