weil

because

Ranks #198 by frequency — outside the core hundred, but common in everyday life.

Type

conjunction

Frequency rank

#198

Per million words

344

In a sentence

Word order

A subordinating conjunction: it sends the conjugated verb to the end of its clause. Ich bleibe, weil es regnet — not weil es regnet ist. This is the single most common word-order mistake beginners make.

Related words

Other words of the same kind, at nearby frequency:

• wenn if, when
• damit with it, so that
• oder or
• dass that
• aber but
• als than, as, when

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