German noun, feminine · CEFR A2
die Hälfte
Meaning in English: half
Example
Die Hälfte der Klasse ist krank.
Half the class is ill.
Der, die or das?
Hälfte is feminine: die Hälfte. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -e are die in 170 of 193 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Hälfte?
Hälfte is number 900 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 98 times per million words — about once every 10,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 63% 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
- 896Chancenchances, opportunities
- 897der Kriegwar
- 898größtebiggest, largest
- 899das Opfervictim; sacrifice
- 900die Hälftehalf
- 901die Techniktechnology, technique
- 902gemeinsamecommon, shared, joint
- 903laglay, was (located)
- 904machtemade, did
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#900
- The 5,000 most common German words#900
- The most common German nouns#305
- German A2 vocabulary#216
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#105
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