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German adverb · CEFR B2

vorab

Meaning in English: in advance, beforehand

Rank 2,254 of 5,000adverbLevel B2
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Example

Ich schicke dir die Unterlagen vorab per Mail.

I'll email you the documents in advance.

How common is vorab?

vorab is number 2,254 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 40 times per million words — about once every 25,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 72% 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

  1. 2,250das Hotelhotel
  2. 2,251eingeführtintroduced; imported
  3. 2,252frühereformer, earlier (inflected)
  4. 2,253das Handwerkcraft, trade; skilled trades
  5. 2,254vorabin advance, beforehand
  6. 2,255schlägthits, beats; suggests (vor-)
  7. 2,256dauernto last, to take (time)
  8. 2,257der Vordergrundforeground
  9. 2,258rausout (colloquial)

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