viel
Meaning in English: much, a lot
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Er arbeitet zu viel.
He works too much.
Forms of viel in the top 5,000
These forms of viel are in the top 5,000 as well — German adds endings for gender, case and number:
Ich sollte mehr Wasser trinken.
I should drink more water.
How common is viel?
viel is number 125 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 692 times per million words — about once every 1,400 words. Its most frequent form is mehr (#56).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 46% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
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In these word lists
- The 500 most common German words#125
- The 1,000 most common German words#125
- The 5,000 most common German words#125
- German A1 vocabulary#100
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.