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German adverb · CEFR B2

umgehend

Meaning in English: immediately, promptly

Rank 2,918 of 5,000adverbLevel B2
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Example

Bitte antworten Sie umgehend auf diese E-Mail.

Please reply to this email promptly.

How common is umgehend?

umgehend is number 2,918 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. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 2,914breitwide, broad
  2. 2,915der Stressstress
  3. 2,916komplettecomplete, entire
  4. 2,917JapanJapan
  5. 2,918umgehendimmediately, promptly
  6. 2,919die Zielgruppetarget group, audience
  7. 2,920HerrnMr, gentleman (acc./dat./gen.)
  8. 2,921hauptsächlichmainly, mostly
  9. 2,922bereitetprepares, causes

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