der Großteil
Meaning in English: majority, large part
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Den Großteil des Tages verbringt er am Computer.
He spends most of the day at the computer.
Der, die or das?
Großteil is masculine: der Großteil. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Großteil?
Großteil is number 2,329 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 39 times per million words — about once every 26,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 72% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Related words in the list
Großteil is built from groß (big, large, tall) + der Teil (part, piece).
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,325die Armeearmy
- 2,326gesorgtensured, caused; taken care
- 2,327interessanteinteresting (inflected)
- 2,328ansonstenotherwise, apart from that
- 2,329der Großteilmajority, large part
- 2,330funktionierento work, to function
- 2,331habt(you all) have
- 2,332überprüftchecked, verified
- 2,333Teststests
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,329
- The most common German nouns#963
- German B2 vocabulary#406
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#251
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.