German noun, neuter · CEFR A2
das Alter
Meaning in English: age
Example
In deinem Alter hatte ich schon zwei Kinder.
At your age I already had two children.
Der, die or das?
Alter is neuter: das Alter. Careful: it is an exception. Nouns ending in -er are usually der (126 of 160 in the list). How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Alter?
Alter is number 549 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 163 times per million words — about once every 6,100 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 59% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 545die Lagesituation; location
- 546der Sommersummer
- 547die Zahlnumber
- 548die Gruppegroup
- 549das Alterage
- 550erneutagain, once more
- 551langlong
- 552sofortimmediately, right away
- 553schließlichfinally, after all
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#549
- The 5,000 most common German words#549
- The most common German nouns#140
- German A2 vocabulary#142
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#20
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