das Jahr
Meaning in English: year
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Letztes Jahr haben wir geheiratet.
We got married last year.
Der, die or das?
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:
Vor fünf Jahren bin ich umgezogen.
I moved five years ago.
Meine Tochter ist sieben Jahre alt.
My daughter is seven years old.
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.
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In these word lists
- The 100 most common German words#80
- The 500 most common German words#80
- The 1,000 most common German words#80
- The 5,000 most common German words#80
- The most common German nouns#2
- German A1 vocabulary#72
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#1
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