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German adjective · CEFR C1

zwingend

Meaning in English: mandatory, necessarily

Rank 3,182 of 5,000adjectiveLevel C1
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Example

Eine Anmeldung ist nicht zwingend nötig.

Registration isn't strictly necessary.

How common is zwingend?

zwingend is number 3,182 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 27 times per million words — about once every 37,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 75% of the words in an ordinary German text. C1 means an advanced word, mostly met in formal or written German.

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 3,178die Spurtrace, track, lane
  2. 3,179Händenhands (dative plural)
  3. 3,180nochmalagain, once more
  4. 3,181bestensvery well, excellently
  5. 3,182zwingendmandatory, necessarily
  6. 3,183aufgehobenlifted, cancelled; kept
  7. 3,184Symptomesymptoms
  8. 3,185entfernento remove
  9. 3,186erheblicheconsiderable, significant

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