German adverb · CEFR B2
umso
Meaning in English: all the (umso besser: all the better)
Example
Du kommst auch? Umso besser!
You're coming too? All the better!
How common is umso?
umso is number 1,923 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 48 times per million words — about once every 21,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 70% 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
- 1,919geprägtshaped, characterised
- 1,920Fachkräfteskilled workers
- 1,921Präsidentenpresident (acc./dat.), presidents
- 1,922das Dachroof
- 1,923umsoall the (umso besser: all the better)
- 1,924gelöschtdeleted; extinguished
- 1,925Einschränkungenrestrictions, limitations
- 1,926festgestelltfound, established, noticed
- 1,927Europasof Europe, Europe's
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