German preposition · CEFR B2
via
Meaning in English: via, by way of
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Wir fliegen via Frankfurt nach New York.
We're flying to New York via Frankfurt.
How common is via?
via is number 2,455 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 37 times per million words — about once every 27,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 73% 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
- 2,451andererseitson the other hand
- 2,452die Erhöhungincrease, raise
- 2,453erinnernremind; remember (sich)
- 2,454befragtensurveyed, questioned
- 2,455viavia, by way of
- 2,456stelltenput, placed; asked (past, plural)
- 2,457angewiesendependent (on), reliant
- 2,458der Erhaltreceipt; preservation
- 2,459Energienenergies
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Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.