die Dauer
Meaning in English: duration, length
Example
Auf Dauer ist mir die Wohnung zu klein.
In the long run the flat is too small for me.
Der, die or das?
Dauer is feminine: die Dauer. 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 Dauer?
Dauer is number 1,412 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 65 times per million words — about once every 15,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 68% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Related words in the list
Words built on Dauer:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,408der Herstellermanufacturer
- 1,409Beamtencivil servants, officers
- 1,410berücksichtigttaken into account
- 1,411das Zeichensign, signal, character
- 1,412die Dauerduration, length
- 1,413fehlento be missing, to be absent
- 1,414vermitteltarranged, conveyed
- 1,415modernemodern
- 1,416übernommentaken over, adopted
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,412
- The most common German nouns#527
- German B1 vocabulary#429
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#186
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.