German verb · CEFR C1
untersagt
Meaning in English: prohibited, forbidden
This is a form of untersagen, which is not in the top 5,000 on its own.
Example
Fotografieren ist im Museum untersagt.
Taking photos is prohibited in the museum.
How common is untersagt?
untersagt is number 4,638 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 17 times per million words — about once every 58,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% of the words in an ordinary German text. C1 means an advanced word, mostly met in formal or written German.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,634jetzigencurrent, present
- 4,635erbrachtprovided, rendered, supplied
- 4,636Dingenthings
- 4,637wildwild
- 4,638untersagtprohibited, forbidden
- 4,639verschiedenstenmost diverse, all sorts of
- 4,640mittleremiddle, medium, average
- 4,641die Toleranztolerance
- 4,642fremdeforeign, strange, unfamiliar
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