Most popular English words: list

If a person is faced with the task of mastering a foreign language, he can not do without learning specific words. GLM (USA) is an organization that keeps track of English vocabulary and the emergence of new concepts. To date, it recorded 1 million 19 thousand 729 words. But in order to communicate with English-speaking citizens, it is enough to know about 1,5 thousand. For free reading of texts and newspapers, you will need to learn 10 thousand of the most common lexical units and idiomatic expressions. You should start with the common ones. The topic of the article is the 100 most popular English words. So, more.

How to determine the most used words

NA Bonk, on whose textbooks the entire Soviet Union studied, included in the asset 1250 nouns, adjectives, verbs and stable expressions, which are often taken as a basis by other sources. There is an approach when the most popular English words are determined by the analysis of works of art in the original language. Up to 700 works are studied, and the list includes not only high-grade speech units, but also commonly used articles, verbs, pronouns. Dictionaries are compiled for 300, 500, 3000 words.

Thanks to the research of Oxford University, the first hundred most used words were selected. Scientists analyzed various sources: fiction, periodicals, Internet sites, specialized journals. The first twenty-five words are found in a third of all the works studied. And all hundred words - in half of the sources. The most common of all parts of speech are verbs.

List of the most popular English words: verbs

It is with this part of the speech that we should begin to study English, paying attention to the following fact: it is characterized by strict construction of sentences. Often a word can act as a subject, or a predicate. The translation depends on where it appeared. The first is always the subject. So, the most popular English words open verbs:

• Be (am, is, are) - can act as an independent verb (be, exist), and a bundle in the meaning of "is" in the composition of the nominal predicate; In the Past Simple used was, were; In the Past Participate - been;
• Have (had) - have;
• Do (did, done) - do;
• Say - speak;
• Get (got) - get, get;
• Make (made) - do;
• Can (could) - be able;
• Like - like;
• Know (knew, known) - know;
• Take (took, taken); take;
• See (saw, seen) - see;
• Look - look, look;
• Come (came, come) - come;
• Use - use (as a noun has the meaning "use");
• Work - work;
• Want - want;
• Give (given, given).
• Think (thought) - think, think.

For irregular verbs, parentheses indicate the past past forms, as well as participles of the same time - Past Participle. If they are identical, they are indicated once.

Nouns

English words are better to learn in a certain context. Especially it concerns nouns, which are used in several meanings and can be translated differently. The task for beginners is facilitated by the fact that the most popular words in English have no special difficulties. Which of them are in the top 100 most common?

• Year - year.
• Time is time.
• Person - a person, a person, a person.
• Way is the way.
• Day is a day.

As for the spoken language, up to 100 nouns are singled out, without which communication with English-speaking citizens is extremely difficult. Among them: word, boy, people, man, land, woman, girl, name, home, mother Mother, country, sun, question, city, life, children, book, family, color, and others. For convenience, phrase books are created, where words are collected on the topics: "In the store", "In the pharmacy", "On the street", "Weather", "Family". But today we are talking about the most common words according to the Oxford study.

Prepositions, pronouns and articles

Most often in English, certain and undefined articles are used, which do not have a separate translation. In the first place among all similar words on the frequency of use is the. This is the definite article standing in front of the noun and indicating that it is a question of a particular subject: the letter is not just a letter, but the one about which a conversation is being conducted. Undefined articles are not translated either - a, an. The second is used if the word begins with a vowel. The use of articles indicates that the conversation is about a general concept, and not about a particular thing. For example, a pen (pen), an air (air).

It is impossible to translate phrases and construct sentences without knowing prepositions. These are the most popular English words: to (k), of (from), in (in), for (for), on (on), with (c), at (y), by, , Into (in), after (after), as (as), over (above).

One of the most used words is the pronoun "I". In English it is written with a capital letter - I. For example, I know that ... (I know that). That translates as "that, that, that." Among the common pronouns: it, he, you, this, this, it, they, her, My, me, who, who, your, him, them, us, us, us, All (all), we (we).

Adjectives, unions and adverbs

What are the epithets most often used by the British? There are only a few, but they deserve our attention: good, any, new, other, first. The last is a numeral, which stands at 88th place in frequency of use.

Not much in the top 100 adverbs, but among them: most, most, even, back, well, also, only, now, , Then, some, a few, just, when, up, there.

The most popular English words are alliances that connect complex sentences. The fifth line in the top-100 is "and", in the original language - and. Slightly less commonly used: or (or), so (so, so), how (how, how), because (because).

What else should I know?

The list will be incomplete if you do not include particles in it: no, not (no, no), would (would); As well as numerals: two (two), one (one). Oxford scientists analyzed the texts, so the hundred most used words did not include the agreement - the word "yes", which is often used in colloquial speech. In English - yes. Those who start learning a foreign language need to know that its peculiarity is not only difficulties in pronunciation of sounds unusual for Russians, but also difficulties in reading.

The most popular words in English with translation should include transcription - recording of sound using phonetic symbols. For reading it is important to know not only its rules, but also the types of the syllable (five of them) that significantly affect the pronunciation of the letters. However, Google facilitates the task, offering a voice sound of the words searched in the search engine, which allowed us not to use transcription.

To successfully learn the language, one must pay attention to idiomatic expressions and other stable phrases, which should also be remembered along with simple words. This is especially important for the development of spoken language.