morgen
morgen is an German adverb meaning tomorrow. It is the 157th most common word in German, which puts it at CEFR level A1. It turns up in about 1 in 185 sentences of real German prose.
157
rank
of 5,000
A1
CEFR level
by frequency
1 in 185
sentences
contain it
59.9%
running total
of a book covered
Running total is cumulative: knowing morgen and every German word above it covers 59.9% of the running words in a real book.
Is morgen worth learning now?
Yes - morgen is inside the first thousand German words, and those thousand cover 76.55% of the prose in a real book and 84.27% of everyday speech. Words this common are worth far more study time than anything further down the list.
Frequency is the honest guide to order, not to method. A word learned from a list on its own fades; the same word met inside a sentence you wanted to read stays. Check a German text against the CEFR bands to see whether what you are reading is at your level.
German words of the same frequency
- meiner #153 - mine
- beide #154 - both
- warten #155 - to wait
- Auge #156 - eye
- ins #158 - to the
- lange #159 - long, for a long time
- sitzen #160 - to sit
- gerade #161 - now
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Where this comes from
The rank is measured, not copied: 151 million words of subtitle dialogue for how German is spoken, and 48 public-domain books for how it is written. Conjugations and plurals count towards the word they belong to, so morgen is ranked as a word rather than as a spelling. The meaning and part of speech come from Wiktionary. Generated 2026-07-27.
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