German reference

German conjunctions

37 words with English translations. 27 of them appear in the 5,000 most common German words, and the table shows exactly where each one ranks — so you can learn the ones you will actually hear first.

37words
27in the top 5,000
Germanlanguage
WordEnglishHow common
undand#11 1.652% of speech
oderor#73 0.246% of speech
aberbut#27 0.616% of speech
sondernbut rather#509 0.018% of speech
obwohlalthough#759 0.010% of speech
weilbecause#123 0.115% of speech
dannthen#65 0.310% of speech
dasince#48 0.407% of speech
dennbecause#95 0.162% of speech
währendwhile#442 0.022% of speech
wennif#37 0.501% of speech
wederneither#1026 0.007% of speech
alsoso#87 0.200% of speech
sodassso thatoutside the top 5,000
folglichthereforeoutside the top 5,000
deshalbtherefore#417 0.023% of speech
jedochnevertheless#1780 0.003% of speech
dennochnotwithstanding#1588 0.004% of speech
sogareven#368 0.026% of speech
auch nichtneitheroutside the top 5,000
vielleichtmaybe#100 0.153% of speech
möglicherweisemaybe#1674 0.003% of speech
wielike#22 0.670% of speech
obwohleven though#759 0.010% of speech
damitso that#129 0.109% of speech
damitin order to#129 0.109% of speech
bevorbefore#266 0.041% of speech
nachdemafter#622 0.013% of speech
bisuntil#138 0.102% of speech
es sei dennunlessoutside the top 5,000
außer wennunlessoutside the top 5,000
auch wenneven thoughoutside the top 5,000
das heißtthat is to sayoutside the top 5,000
mit anderen Wortenthat is to sayoutside the top 5,000
außerdembesides#667 0.012% of speech
obendreinon top of thatoutside the top 5,000
vor allemover alloutside the top 5,000

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