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German noun, neuter · CEFR B1

Jahrzehnte

Meaning in English: decades

Rank 3,252 of 5,000nounLevel B1

This is a form of Jahrzehnt, which is not in the top 5,000 on its own — its other forms in the list are Jahrzehnten.

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Example

Das alte Haus stand Jahrzehnte lang leer.

The old house stood empty for decades.

How common is Jahrzehnte?

Jahrzehnte is number 3,252 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 26 times per million words — about once every 38,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 75% 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. 3,248steigendenrising
  2. 3,249der Gründerfounder
  3. 3,250mitmachento join in, to take part
  4. 3,251Autorenauthors
  5. 3,252Jahrzehntedecades
  6. 3,253langerlong (inflected)
  7. 3,254die Hitzeheat
  8. 3,255städtischenmunicipal, urban
  9. 3,256die Landschaftlandscape, scenery

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