German noun, feminine · CEFR B1
die Heimat
Meaning in English: home, homeland
Example
Nach zwanzig Jahren ist Berlin meine zweite Heimat.
After twenty years Berlin is my second home.
Der, die or das?
Heimat is feminine: die Heimat. Careful: it is an exception. Nouns ending in -at are usually der (8 of 11 in the list). How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Heimat?
Heimat is number 1,385 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 66 times per million words — about once every 15,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 67% 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
- 1,381Veränderungenchanges
- 1,382das Vertrauentrust, confidence
- 1,383die Sachething, matter
- 1,384bundesweitnationwide
- 1,385die Heimathome, homeland
- 1,386sichernto secure, to back up
- 1,387das Gebietarea, region, field
- 1,388entdeckento discover
- 1,389sinnvollsensible, useful, meaningful
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,385
- The most common German nouns#514
- German B1 vocabulary#417
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#182
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