German noun, feminine · CEFR B1
die City
Meaning in English: city centre, downtown
Example
Am Samstag gehen wir in der City shoppen.
On Saturday we're going shopping in town.
Der, die or das?
City is feminine: die City. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is City?
City is number 2,437 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 37 times per million words — about once every 27,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 73% 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
- 2,433der Vorschlagsuggestion, proposal
- 2,434beschädigtdamaged
- 2,435die Bestellungorder
- 2,436alternativenalternative
- 2,437die Citycity centre, downtown
- 2,438belegttaken, occupied; proven
- 2,439Bestimmungenregulations, provisions
- 2,440verstehtunderstands
- 2,441kündigtequit, cancelled (past)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,437
- The most common German nouns#1,014
- German B1 vocabulary#788
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#331
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