aber

but

The 31st most frequent word in German, appearing about 2,989 times per million words.

Type

conjunction

Frequency rank

#31

Per million words

2,989

In a sentence

Word order

A coordinating conjunction: it joins two clauses and leaves the word order alone. The verb stays in second position — Ich komme, aber ich bleibe nicht lange.

Related words

Other words of the same kind, at nearby frequency:

• als than, as, when
• dass that
• und and
• oder or
• damit with it, so that
• wenn if, when

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