welcher
Meaning in English: which
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Welcher Bus fährt zum Bahnhof?
Which bus goes to the station?
Forms of welcher in the top 5,000
These forms of welcher are in the top 5,000 as well — German adds endings for gender, case and number:
Welche Sprachen sprichst du?
Which languages do you speak?
Welches Kleid gefällt dir besser?
Which dress do you like better?
Welchen Film wollen wir heute Abend sehen?
Which film shall we watch tonight?
In welchem Stock wohnst du?
Which floor do you live on?
How common is welcher?
welcher is number 1,048 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 86 times per million words — about once every 12,000 words. Its most frequent form is welche (#154).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 65% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,044denkento think
- 1,045der Kopfhead
- 1,046der Arbeitgeberemployer
- 1,047angesichtsin view of, given
- 1,048welcherwhich
- 1,049geführtled, run, guided
- 1,050der Überblickoverview
- 1,051verantwortlichresponsible
- 1,052persönlichepersonal
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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.