das Jahrhundert
Meaning in English: century
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Die Kirche stammt aus dem zwölften Jahrhundert.
The church dates from the twelfth century.
Der, die or das?
Jahrhundert is neuter: das Jahrhundert. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Jahrhundert in the top 5,000
These forms of Jahrhundert are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Das Haus stammt aus dem Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts.
The house dates from the early 19th century.
How common is Jahrhundert?
Jahrhundert is number 1,737 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 53 times per million words — about once every 19,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 69% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Related words in the list
Jahrhundert is built from das Jahr (year).
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,733vorstellento introduce, to imagine
- 1,734das Fensterwindow
- 1,735nutztuses
- 1,736klareclear
- 1,737das Jahrhundertcentury
- 1,738der Bezirkdistrict
- 1,739Strukturenstructures
- 1,740die Ernährungdiet, nutrition
- 1,741Pflanzenplants
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,737
- The most common German nouns#687
- German B1 vocabulary#549
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#91
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.