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bei

at, near, with

The 20th most frequent word in German, appearing about 5,505 times per million words.

Type
preposition
Frequency rank
#20
Per million words
5,505

In a sentence

Ich bin bei meiner Familie.I am with my family.

Which case does it take?

Always takes the dative.

Other words of the same kind, at nearby frequency:

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