German conjunction · CEFR B1
weder
Meaning in English: neither
Example
Ich trinke weder Kaffee noch Alkohol.
I drink neither coffee nor alcohol.
How common is weder?
weder is number 1,177 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 77 times per million words — about once every 13,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 66% 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
- 1,173positivpositive
- 1,174Interesseninterests
- 1,175ziehtpulls, moves
- 1,176umgesetztimplemented, put into practice
- 1,177wederneither
- 1,178Materialienmaterials
- 1,179einzigeonly, single
- 1,180der Bauconstruction, building
- 1,181enthältcontains
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