German adjective · CEFR A2
Top
Meaning in English: top, excellent
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Das Essen war top, der Service leider nicht.
The food was excellent, but sadly not the service.
How common is Top?
Top is number 2,926 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 30 times per million words — about once every 33,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 74% 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
- 2,922bereitetprepares, causes
- 2,923geringlow, small, slight
- 2,924mobilenmobile
- 2,925JudenJews
- 2,926Toptop, excellent
- 2,927beliebtpopular
- 2,928barrierefreiaccessible, step-free
- 2,929die Methodemethod
- 2,930gefälltpleases, (I) like
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,926
- The most common German adjectives#479
- German A2 vocabulary#640
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.