für

for

The 15th most frequent word in German, appearing about 8,221 times per million words.

Type

preposition

Frequency rank

#15

Per million words

8,221

In a sentence

Which case does it take?

Always takes the accusative.

Related words

Other words of the same kind, at nearby frequency:

• von from, of
• auf on, onto
• mit with
• an at, on
• bei at, near, with
• zu to

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