German number · CEFR A1
zweiter
Meaning in English: second
This is a form of zweite, which is not in the top 5,000 on its own — its other forms in the list are zweites.
Example
Das ist schon mein zweiter Kaffee heute.
That's already my second coffee today.
How common is zweiter?
zweiter is number 3,113 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 28 times per million words — about once every 36,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 75% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
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