German adverb · CEFR A2
wieso
Meaning in English: why
Example
Wieso bist du so spät gekommen?
Why did you come so late?
How common is wieso?
wieso is number 3,938 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 21 times per million words — about once every 47,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,934aufzunehmento take in, to record (zu-inf.)
- 3,935Einheitenunits
- 3,936grundlegendefundamental, basic
- 3,937befragtquestioned, surveyed
- 3,938wiesowhy
- 3,939füllento fill
- 3,940die Autorinauthor, writer (female)
- 3,941das Budgetbudget
- 3,942gerettetsaved, rescued
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