German noun, neuter · CEFR B1
das Amt
Meaning in English: office, authority, post
Example
Für den neuen Pass musst du aufs Amt.
You have to go to the authorities for the new passport.
Der, die or das?
Amt is neuter: das Amt. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Amt?
Amt is number 1,153 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 78 times per million words — about once every 13,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 66% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,149die Plattformplatform
- 1,150Lehrkräfteteachers
- 1,151herhere (towards), ago
- 1,152präsentiertpresented
- 1,153das Amtoffice, authority, post
- 1,154der Bezugreference, relation, cover
- 1,155das Fahrzeugvehicle
- 1,156stärkerstronger, more
- 1,157Aktivitätenactivities
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,153
- The most common German nouns#413
- German B1 vocabulary#333
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#50
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