halb
Meaning in English: half
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Numbers in German list.
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Wir treffen uns um halb acht.
We're meeting at half past seven.
Forms of halb in the top 5,000
halb itself is not in the top 5,000, but these forms of it are:
Ich warte schon seit einer halben Stunde.
I've been waiting for half an hour.
Ich habe schon eine halbe Pizza gegessen.
I've already eaten half a pizza.
How common is halb?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, halb appears 13 times per million words — about once every 76,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million. Its forms halben (#3,425), halbe (#3,621) are in the top 5,000, though.
A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
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