German adverb · CEFR A2
ziemlich
Meaning in English: quite, fairly, rather
Example
Heute ist es ziemlich kalt.
It's quite cold today.
How common is ziemlich?
ziemlich is number 1,671 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 55 times per million words — about once every 18,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 69% 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
- 1,667medizinischenmedical
- 1,668der Planplan, map
- 1,669rechtenright; right-wing
- 1,670erinnertreminds, remembered
- 1,671ziemlichquite, fairly, rather
- 1,672die Erklärungexplanation, statement
- 1,673verzichtento do without, to give up
- 1,674diskutiertdiscussed
- 1,675Fallecase (im Falle: in case of); trap
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