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German noun, neuter · CEFR A2

Dinge

Meaning in English: things

Rank 984 of 5,000nounLevel A2

This is a form of Ding, which is not in the top 5,000 on its own — its other forms in the list are Dingen.

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Example

Ich muss heute noch ein paar Dinge erledigen.

I still have to take care of a few things today.

How common is Dinge?

Dinge is number 984 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 91 times per million words — about once every 11,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 64% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 980gebegive (ich); gives (reported speech)
  2. 981politischepolitical
  3. 982hingegenhowever, on the other hand
  4. 983zugleichat the same time, simultaneously
  5. 984Dingethings
  6. 985herausout (of)
  7. 986hinzuin addition, to it
  8. 987die Gefahrdanger, risk
  9. 988welchenwhich (acc. masc., dat. pl.)

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