German noun, plural only · CEFR A2

die Lebensmittel

Meaning in English: food, groceries

Rank 1,644 of 5,000noun · dieLevel A22 forms in the list
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Example

Lebensmittel sind in letzter Zeit teurer geworden.

Food has become more expensive recently.

Forms of Lebensmittel in the top 5,000

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

Lebensmitteln#3,476
food, groceries (dative pl.)A2

Mit frischen Lebensmitteln kocht man gesünder.
Cooking with fresh food is healthier.

How common is Lebensmittel?

Lebensmittel is number 1,644 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 56 times per million words — about once every 18,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 69% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.

Related words in the list

Lebensmittel is built from leben (to live, to be alive) + Lebens (of life (genitive)) + das Mittel (means, remedy, funds).

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 1,640das Niveaulevel, standard
  2. 1,641medizinischemedical
  3. 1,642das Frühjahrspring
  4. 1,643verfügento have (at one's disposal)
  5. 1,644die Lebensmittelfood, groceries
  6. 1,645die Änderungchange, alteration
  7. 1,646das Fotophoto
  8. 1,647Zeugenwitnesses
  9. 1,648Erwachseneadults

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