German noun, neuter · CEFR B2

das Lebensjahr

Meaning in English: year of (one's) life

Rank 4,087 of 5,000noun · dasLevel B2
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Example

Kinder ab dem sechsten Lebensjahr zahlen den vollen Preis.

Children aged six and over pay full price.

Der, die or das?

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

How common is Lebensjahr?

Lebensjahr is number 4,087 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 20 times per million words — about once every 49,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.

Related words in the list

Lebensjahr is built from leben (to live, to be alive) + Lebens (of life (genitive)) + das Jahr (year).

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 4,083das Schiffship
  2. 4,084die Jahrgangsstufeyear, grade (at school)
  3. 4,085erkundento explore
  4. 4,086der Nordnorth
  5. 4,087das Lebensjahryear of (one's) life
  6. 4,088Getränkedrinks
  7. 4,089gebundenbound, tied
  8. 4,090vollständigecomplete, full
  9. 4,091aktuellercurrent, up-to-date

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