German noun, neuter · CEFR B1
das Dutzend
Meaning in English: dozen
Example
Auf dem Markt habe ich ein Dutzend Eier gekauft.
I bought a dozen eggs at the market.
Der, die or das?
Dutzend is neuter: das Dutzend. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Dutzend?
Dutzend is number 4,986 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 16 times per million words — about once every 63,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 79% 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
- 4,982irgendwosomewhere, anywhere
- 4,983das Frühstückbreakfast
- 4,984der Dealdeal
- 4,985Expertinnenexperts (female, plural)
- 4,986das Dutzenddozen
- 4,987der Bundestrainernational (team) coach
- 4,988der Kooperationspartnercooperation partner
- 4,989nehmetake (1st person)
- 4,990spieltenplayed (past plural)
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- The 5,000 most common German words#4,986
- The most common German nouns#2,194
- German B1 vocabulary#1,608
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#268
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