German noun, feminine · CEFR A2

die Altstadt

Meaning in English: old town

Rank 3,402 of 5,000noun · dieLevel A2
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Example

Am Abend bummeln wir durch die Altstadt.

In the evening we stroll through the old town.

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Altstadt is feminine: die Altstadt. How to tell the gender from the ending.

How common is Altstadt?

Altstadt is number 3,402 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 25 times per million words — about once every 40,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 75% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.

Related words in the list

Altstadt is built from die Stadt (town, city).

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 3,398Krankenkassenhealth insurance funds
  2. 3,399liegelie (I lie; subjunctive)
  3. 3,400der Stadtratcity council, councillor
  4. 3,401die Überprüfungcheck, review, inspection
  5. 3,402die Altstadtold town
  6. 3,403Lehrkräftenteachers (dative pl.)
  7. 3,404übernahmtook over, took on
  8. 3,405dranon it; one's turn (colloquial)
  9. 3,406Gebührenfees, charges

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