German noun, feminine · CEFR B1

die Mehrheit

Meaning in English: majority

Rank 1,479 of 5,000noun · dieLevel B1
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Example

Die Mehrheit der Klasse wollte ans Meer.

Most of the class wanted to go to the seaside.

Der, die or das?

Mehrheit is feminine: die Mehrheit. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -heit are die in 11 of 11 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.

How common is Mehrheit?

Mehrheit is number 1,479 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 62 times per million words — about once every 16,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 68% 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. 1,475möglicherweisepossibly, perhaps
  2. 1,476ernstserious, seriously
  3. 1,477erfüllento fulfil, to meet (requirements)
  4. 1,478die Sitzungmeeting, session
  5. 1,479die Mehrheitmajority
  6. 1,480lebtlives
  7. 1,481die Nachhaltigkeitsustainability
  8. 1,482bisschena bit, a little
  9. 1,483Beiträgecontributions, posts, fees

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