German adjective · CEFR B1
vergangenen
Meaning in English: past, last
This is a form of vergangen, which is not in the top 5,000 on its own — its other forms in the list are vergangene.
Example
In der vergangenen Woche war ich krank.
I was ill last week.
How common is vergangenen?
vergangenen is number 229 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 372 times per million words — about once every 2,700 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 51% 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
In these word lists
- The 500 most common German words#229
- The 1,000 most common German words#229
- The 5,000 most common German words#229
- The most common German adjectives#16
- German B1 vocabulary#29
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