zu

to

The 7th most frequent word in German, appearing about 11,058 times per million words.

Type

preposition

Frequency rank

#7

Per million words

11,058

In a sentence

Which case does it take?

Always takes the dative.

Related words

Other words of the same kind, at nearby frequency:

• in in
• an at, on
• mit with
• auf on, onto
• von from, of
• für for

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