German adverb · CEFR B2
zunehmend
Meaning in English: increasingly
Example
Das Wetter wird zunehmend schlechter.
The weather is getting increasingly worse.
How common is zunehmend?
zunehmend is number 1,440 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 64 times per million words — about once every 16,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 68% 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
- 1,436besserebetter
- 1,437das Vorjahrprevious year
- 1,438das Institutinstitute
- 1,439wolltenwanted
- 1,440zunehmendincreasingly
- 1,441findefind, think
- 1,442das Modellmodel
- 1,443frühearly
- 1,444gefahrendriven, gone (by vehicle)
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