German noun, neuter · CEFR A1

das Jahr

Meaning in English: year

Rank 80 of 5,000noun · dasLevel A14 forms in the list
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Example

Letztes Jahr haben wir geheiratet.

We got married last year.

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Jahr is neuter: das Jahr. How to tell the gender from the ending.

Forms of Jahr in the top 5,000

These forms of Jahr are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:

Jahren#91
years (dative plural)A1

Vor fünf Jahren bin ich umgezogen.
I moved five years ago.

Jahre#128
yearsA1

Meine Tochter ist sieben Jahre alt.
My daughter is seven years old.

Jahres#484
of the year (genitive)B1

Am Ende des Jahres ziehen wir um.
We're moving at the end of the year.

How common is Jahr?

Jahr is number 80 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 1,150 times per million words — about once every 870 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 42% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.

Related words in the list

Words built on Jahr:

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 76beimat the, while (bei + dem)
  2. 77unsus, to us; ourselves
  3. 78hierhere
  4. 79dieserthis (masculine)
  5. 80das Jahryear
  6. 81seitsince, for (time)
  7. 82immeralways
  8. 83schonalready; yet; surely
  9. 84damitso that; with it

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