German adjective · CEFR B1
streng
Meaning in English: strict, severe
Example
Unsere Lehrerin war streng, aber fair.
Our teacher was strict but fair.
How common is streng?
streng is number 4,834 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 16 times per million words — about once every 61,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,830sinktsinks, falls, drops
- 4,831stärkstenstrongest
- 4,832die Einbindungintegration, involvement
- 4,833das Grammgram
- 4,834strengstrict, severe
- 4,835Blumenflowers
- 4,836übermittelnto transmit, to pass on
- 4,837strategischestrategic
- 4,838mögento like
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- The 5,000 most common German words#4,834
- The most common German adjectives#900
- German B1 vocabulary#1,570
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