German conjunction · CEFR B2
sowie
Meaning in English: as well as, and also
Example
Bitte bringen Sie Ihren Pass sowie ein Foto mit.
Please bring your passport as well as a photo.
How common is sowie?
sowie is number 71 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 1,232 times per million words — about once every 810 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 41% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
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- German B2 vocabulary#1
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