German adverb · CEFR B2
teils
Meaning in English: partly
Example
Das Wetter war teils sonnig, teils bewölkt.
The weather was partly sunny, partly cloudy.
How common is teils?
teils is number 1,460 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 63 times per million words — about once every 16,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 68% 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
- 1,456höherhigher
- 1,457der Kaufpurchase
- 1,458beruflichenprofessional, vocational
- 1,459gegründetfounded
- 1,460teilspartly
- 1,461wärenwould be, were
- 1,462der Künstlerartist
- 1,463der Angriffattack
- 1,464das Verständnisunderstanding, sympathy
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