vor

before, in front of

The 33rd most frequent word in German, appearing about 2,724 times per million words.

Type

preposition

Frequency rank

#33

Per million words

2,724

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:

• über over, about
• um at, around
• nach after, to
• aus from, out of
• bei at, near, with
• durch through

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