German adjective · CEFR B1
umgekehrt
Meaning in English: the other way round, vice versa
Example
Es war genau umgekehrt.
It was exactly the other way round.
How common is umgekehrt?
umgekehrt is number 4,570 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 18 times per million words — about once every 57,000 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
- 4,566der Umweltschutzenvironmental protection
- 4,567die Wirksamkeiteffectiveness
- 4,568zurückkehrento return, to come back
- 4,569ärztlichemedical, doctor's
- 4,570umgekehrtthe other way round, vice versa
- 4,571nutzbarusable
- 4,572verkündetannounced, proclaimed
- 4,573der Außenministerforeign minister
- 4,574der Gottesdienstchurch service
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- The 5,000 most common German words#4,570
- The most common German adjectives#832
- German B1 vocabulary#1,487
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