German noun, neuter · CEFR B1
das Center
Meaning in English: centre
Example
Das neue Center hat über fünfzig Geschäfte.
The new centre has over fifty shops.
Der, die or das?
Center is neuter: das Center. 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 Center?
Center is number 3,315 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 26 times per million words — about once every 39,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 75% 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
- 3,311Bewerbungenapplications
- 3,312Berufeprofessions, jobs
- 3,313erarbeitento work out, to develop
- 3,314die Speicherungstorage, saving
- 3,315das Centercentre
- 3,316geliefertdelivered
- 3,317Faktenfacts
- 3,318das Bettbed
- 3,319integrierento integrate
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,315
- The most common German nouns#1,406
- German B1 vocabulary#1,080
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#172
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