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German adjective · CEFR B1

unabhängig

Meaning in English: independent

Rank 1,034 of 5,000adjectiveLevel B13 forms in the list
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Example

Mit dem eigenen Auto ist man einfach unabhängig.

With your own car you're simply independent.

Forms of unabhängig in the top 5,000

These forms of unabhängig are in the top 5,000 as well — German adds endings for gender, case and number:

unabhängige#3,816
independentB2

Sie ist eine unabhängige junge Frau.
She is an independent young woman.

unabhängigen#4,954
independentB2

Er liest lieber Nachrichten aus unabhängigen Quellen.
He prefers reading news from independent sources.

How common is unabhängig?

unabhängig is number 1,034 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 87 times per million words — about once every 11,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 65% 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

  1. 1,030vollfull
  2. 1,031freienfree, open (inflected)
  3. 1,032benötigtneeded, required
  4. 1,033einzelneindividual, single, some
  5. 1,034unabhängigindependent
  6. 1,035die Bankbank, bench
  7. 1,036hierzuon this, for this
  8. 1,037wendento turn
  9. 1,038weitererfurther, another

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