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About this deck

This deck is based on:

• The book "Tschirner, E., & Möhring, J. (2019). A Frequency Dictionary of German: Core Vocabulary for Learners (2nd ed.). Routledge https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315620008" (link)
• The deck English-Deutsch (Sorted by Frequency)

This deck contains the 1st to the 1700th German words that occurred most frequently in the corpus studied by the book authors. The more frequent a word is, the closer it is to the beginning of the deck.

Each card includes:

• a German word;
• an AI-generated German sentence that includes that word;
• English translation of the German word;
• AI-generated English translation of the German sentence;
• AI-generated audio for the words and sentences;
• additional information (click on a word to view this information).

Card example:

Related Work

1. Dictionaries:
   • DWDS
2. Decks with cards that include a word, a sentence using that word, audio for the word, and audio for the sentence:
   • 4000 Essential English Words (all books) [en-en]
   • 📒 Langenscheidt Basic German Vocabulary
3. Decks with cards that include sentences and audio:
   • → German 7000 Intermediate/Advanced Sentences w/ Audio [1/2]
   • → German 7000 Intermediate/Advanced Sentences w/ Audio [2/2]
4. Decks for learning German based on frequency lists:
   1. Search for "frequency" (https://ankiweb.net/shared/decks?search=frequency) to find other frequency-based decks.
   2. Search for "German", "Deutsch", "de", or "ge" on the results page to find decks for learning German.

Cards

Card fields

• index - The card number in the deck. These numbers start from 0. Cards are sorted by this field.
• frequency_rank - Frequency rank (as per the book's "Rank frequency"). The more frequent a word is in the studied corpus, the higher the rank and the lower the frequency_rank number. Cards with the same frequency_rank have consecutively increasing index values.
• part_of_speech_short - One of the following:
  • A part of speech or its abbreviation.
  • Possible articles of a noun.
• word_de - A German word.
• word_forms_de - Forms of the German word:
  • For a noun - its plural form.
  • For a verb - its principal parts.
  • For a pronoun (if applicable) - its declensions.
• sentence_de - A short (30 to 45 characters long) German sentence that includes the word.
• word_translations_en - English translations of the German word.
• word_en - One of the translations from word_translations_en. This field may be empty if word_translations_en is empty.
• sentence_en - An English translation of the German sentence. This translation includes word_en.
• part_of_speech - Part of speech.
• sentence_original_de - The original German sentence from the book.
• sentence_original_en - The original English sentence from the book.
• word_sound_de - Audio of word_de.
• sentence_sound_de - Audio of sentence_de.
• word_sound_en - Audio of word_en.
• sentence_sound_en - Audio of sentence_en.

Card templates

The original card templates are here.

You can modify templates inside your Anki application, e.g., to not show word_de and not play word_sound_de.

For more information, see Card Templates.

AI-generated sentences

The sentences in the sentence_de and sentence_en fields were generated mostly in August - October 2024 using ChatGPT 4o. I selected sentences that sounded natural and seemed useful for learning.

I decided to generate sentences because I wanted full control over their content and length. I needed control over the content because I felt the original sentences provided more context than necessary to understand a word. I also needed control over the sentence length to ensure sentences could be learned in a reasonable amount of time.

Some AI-generated sentences may be problematic. I fix them from time to time and invite you to contribute your fixes.

AI-generated audio

The audio was generated using the HyperTTS plugin for the desktop version of Anki.

I used free Google Translate voices to enable free audio updates on both my side and the deck user's side.

Note indices

I added several notes with a floating-point index to the deck. The fractional part of each index is greater than 0.0 and less than 0.01.

Therefore, if you want to add your own notes, use an index with a fractional part that is greater than or equal to 0.01 and less than 1. This ensures that the ranges of fractional parts we use do not overlap, and the notes I add won't conflict with your notes when you import deck updates.

Update the deck

Transfer progress from another deck

Try the Transfer Scheduling Info Advanced add-on.

You should have two transfer groups with the following source and target:

• Note type: De - En [A Frequency Dictionary of German] [Audio files]
• Comparing field: index
• Card template: De - En (group 1), En - De (group 2)

With AnkiWeb

Download this deck and import it into your Anki application.

Don't import learning progress and deck presets.

Without AnkiWeb

1. Use the desktop Anki version.
2. Install the HyperTTS plugin (see 1, 2, 3).
3. Copy the data from the deck data file into a local file.
4. Import the local file into this deck using the appropriate note type. In the Import options, set:
   • Existing notes: Update
   • Match scope: Notetype and deck
5. After the import, Anki will provide information about the imported notes. Click on 'Show' next to the line with information about the notes that 'were used to update existing ones.'
6. Select all cards and update the audio. HyperTTS will generate audio only for fields that have changed. Use free Google Translate voices to avoid regenerating the audio.
7. Save presets to simplify future updates.

Add new notes to this deck

Use a floating-point index like 4.2 for new cards. A card with the index 4.2 will appear in the deck immediately after a card with the index 4 due to sorting on the index field.

Use AI to generate new notes.

Update audio via the HyperTTS plugin for the desktop version of Anki.

Maintenance

The deck author sometimes improves the deck by adding better sentences and including notes with more word meanings.

The deck may be unavailable for at least one day after the author updates it on AnkiWeb.

Contribute

On GitHub

The textual data for this and other deck parts is stored in the deck data file. Every line (except for the first one) corresponds to a note in a deck.

If you want to improve some notes, modify relevant lines in this file and submit a Pull Request (PR). After I merge your PR, I'll update decks and share them on AnkiWeb.

If you have an idea for improvement, report it by creating an Issue.

On Google Sheets

Correct the deck data on Google Sheets. The deck author will periodically apply edits from Google Sheets to the file in the GitHub repository.

Otherwise

Suggest your friends who know both English and German to check this deck and contribute.

Create or encourage others to create similar decks, e.g., for other German-* pairs where * is a language other than English.

Changelog

See on GitHub the commit history of the deck directory and the deck data file.