die Großmutter
Meaning in English: grandmother
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Family members in German list.
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Meine Großmutter wohnt auf dem Land.
My grandmother lives in the country.
Der, die or das?
Großmutter is feminine: die Großmutter. 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 Großmutter?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Großmutter appears 5.6 times per million words — about once every 180,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
Related words in the list
Großmutter is built from groß (big, large, tall) + die Mutter (mother).
Family: more words
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- die Muttermother
- der Vaterfather
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- die Tochterdaughter
- der Bruderbrother
- die Schwestersister; nurse
- die Geschwistersiblings, brothers and sisters
- die Großelterngrandparents
- der Großvatergrandfather
- die Omagrandma, granny
- der Opagrandpa, grandad
- der Enkelgrandson; grandchild
- die Enkelingranddaughter
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