German noun, neuter · CEFR B1
Medien
Meaning in English: media
This is a form of Medium, which is not in the top 5,000 on its own.
Example
Kinder verbringen viel Zeit mit digitalen Medien.
Children spend a lot of time with digital media.
How common is Medien?
Medien is number 450 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 196 times per million words — about once every 5,100 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 57% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Related words in the list
Words built on Medien:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 446das Programmprogramme; program
- 447musstehad to
- 448hättenwould have (we/they)
- 449der NovemberNovember
- 450Medienmedia
- 451Minutenminutes
- 452Stundenhours
- 453unseremour (dative, masc./neut.)
- 454die Wirtschafteconomy; pub, inn
In these word lists
- The 500 most common German words#450
- The 1,000 most common German words#450
- The 5,000 most common German words#450
- The most common German nouns#98
- German B1 vocabulary#78
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