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Rotkäppchen — Little Red Cap
The Brothers Grimm, 1857 · 1264 words in German · part of the library.
How long «Rotkäppchen» is, and how hard
| Length in German | 1264 running words · 59 sentences · about 5 printed pages |
|---|---|
| Time to read | about 11 minutes at a learner's pace, with the glosses to hand |
| Different words | 345 dictionary words, averaging 21.4 words a sentence |
| Words glossed | 345 of 345 — every one that appears in the tale |
| Words that appear once | 186 — 54%. A word met once is a word you will not learn from this text alone |
| Where it stands | 6 of 8 by length in the German room |
282 of this tale's own 345 words, most frequent first, carry 95% of it; 126 carry 80%.
How it begins
Es war einmal eine kleine süße Dirne, die hatte jedermann lieb, der sie nur ansah, am allerliebsten aber ihre Großmutter, die wusste gar nicht was sie alles dem Kinde geben sollte.
There was once a dear little girl who was loved by everyone who so much as looked at her, but most of all by her grandmother, who did not know what to give the child next.
That first sentence is the free sample, and the only one: «Rotkäppchen» is part of the interactive library in German, Russian, Spanish, French and Italian, with word meanings and sentence translations — one subscription for all five rooms. What the library costs. «Der süße Brei» is free, entire, on its editorial reference page.
Shorter and longer in the same room
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