German adjective · CEFR A2
unmöglich
Meaning in English: impossible
Example
Bei diesem Verkehr ist es unmöglich, pünktlich zu sein.
With this traffic it's impossible to be on time.
How common is unmöglich?
unmöglich is number 4,311 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 19 times per million words — about once every 53,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% 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
- 4,307gelöstsolved
- 4,308verteidigento defend
- 4,309scharfsharp, spicy
- 4,310ähnlichensimilar
- 4,311unmöglichimpossible
- 4,312das Ausmaßextent, scale
- 4,313der Führerscheindriving licence
- 4,314gemeinnützigenon-profit, charitable
- 4,315die Agendaagenda
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- The 5,000 most common German words#4,311
- The most common German adjectives#772
- German A2 vocabulary#880
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