zwei
Meaning in English: two
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Wir bleiben zwei Nächte im Hotel.
We're staying two nights at the hotel.
Forms of zwei in the top 5,000
These forms of zwei are in the top 5,000 as well — German adds endings for gender, case and number:
Sie ist Mutter zweier Kinder.
She is the mother of two children.
How common is zwei?
zwei is number 85 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 1,044 times per million words — about once every 960 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 43% 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
In these word lists
- The 100 most common German words#85
- The 500 most common German words#85
- The 1,000 most common German words#85
- The 5,000 most common German words#85
- German A1 vocabulary#76
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.