The most common German prepositions

51prepositions

6.7%of everyday speech

#16rank of the commonest

#	Word	English	Say it	Share
16	zu	to	tsoo	1.028%
21	mit	with	miht	0.732%
26	auf	on	owf	0.636%
32	für	for	fewr	0.530%
35	von	from	fawn	0.510%
44	an	at/on	ahn	0.453%
66	aus	out of	ows	0.307%
68	um	around/at	uum	0.301%
69	im	in the	ihm	0.291%
75	nach	after/to	nahkh	0.235%
86	bei	at/near	beye	0.200%
90	vor	before/in front of	fawr	0.179%
98	zum	to the	tsuum	0.156%
106	über	over/about	EW-ber	0.142%
116	am	at the	ahm	0.123%
138	bis	until	bihs	0.102%
153	zur	to the	tsoor	0.083%
160	ab	from/off	ahp	0.076%
167	durch	through	DUU-erkh	0.070%
182	ohne	without	OH-nuh	0.064%
201	ins	into the	ihns	0.058%
205	seit	since	zeyet	0.057%
213	vom	from the	fawm	0.055%
218	wegen	because of	VAY-guhn	0.053%
235	unter	under	UUN-ter	0.048%
248	gegen	against	GAY-guhn	0.044%
274	beim	at the	beyem	0.039%
352	hinter	behind	HIHN-ter	0.027%
441	zwischen	between	TSVIH-shuhn	0.022%
516	außer	except	OW-ser	0.018%
709	aufs	onto the	owfs	0.011%
817	fürs	for the	fewrs	0.009%
912	neben	next to	NAY-buhn	0.008%
934	ans	to the	ahns	0.008%
1002	gegenüber	opposite	gay-guh-NEW-ber	0.007%
1014	namens	named	NAH-muhns	0.007%
1085	statt	instead of	shtaht	0.006%
1135	pro	per	proh	0.006%
1212	entlang	along	ehnt-LAHNG	0.005%
1426	abgesehen	apart from	AHP-guh-zay-uhn	0.004%
1517	außerhalb	outside of	OW-ser-hahlp	0.004%
1592	trotz	despite	trawts	0.004%
1642	innerhalb	within	IH-ner-hahlp	0.004%
1678	ums	around the	uums	0.003%
1823	anstatt	instead of	AHN-shtaht	0.003%
1984	per	per	pehr	0.003%
2057	durchs	through the	DUU-erks	0.003%
2063	aufgrund	due to	OWFG-ruunt	0.003%
2088	übers	over the	EW-bers	0.002%
2331	plus	plus	pluus	0.002%
3385	fuer	ASCII spelling of 'für' (for)	FUEWR	0.001%

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