von

from, of

The 13th most frequent word in German, appearing about 9,074 times per million words.

Type

preposition

Frequency rank

#13

Per million words

9,074

In a sentence

Which case does it take?

Always takes the dative.

Related words

Other words of the same kind, at nearby frequency:

• auf on, onto
• mit with
• für for
• an at, on
• zu to
• bei at, near, with

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