der Dezember
Meaning in English: December
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
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Im Dezember backen wir Plätzchen.
In December we bake Christmas biscuits.
Der, die or das?
Dezember is masculine: der Dezember. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -er are der in 126 of 160 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Dezember?
Dezember is number 458 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 190 times per million words — about once every 5,300 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 57% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 454die Wirtschafteconomy; pub, inn
- 455der DonnerstagThursday
- 456der AprilApril
- 457der Beginnbeginning, start
- 458der DezemberDecember
- 459setztsets, puts; sits (sich)
- 460der AugustAugust
- 461dadurchas a result, thereby; through it
- 462setzento set, to put; sich setzen = sit down
In these word lists
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- The 1,000 most common German words#458
- The 5,000 most common German words#458
- The most common German nouns#105
- German A1 vocabulary#250
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#33
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.