unter

under, among

The 71st most frequent word in German, appearing about 1,317 times per million words.

Type

preposition

Frequency rank

#71

Per million words

1,317

In a sentence

Which case does it take?

A two-way preposition. It takes the accusative when there is movement towards somewhere, and the dative when it describes a fixed location. Ich gehe in die Stadt (movement) versus Ich bin in der Stadt (location).

Related words

Other words of the same kind, at nearby frequency:

• ab from, as of
• gegen against, around
• bis until, up to
• seit since, for
• durch through
• über over, about

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