die Million
Meaning in English: million
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Die Stadt hat über eine Million Einwohner.
The city has over a million inhabitants.
Der, die or das?
Million is feminine: die Million. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -ion are die in 46 of 47 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Million in the top 5,000
These forms of Million are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Der Film hat Millionen Zuschauer begeistert.
The film thrilled millions of viewers.
How common is Million?
Million is number 2,674 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 34 times per million words — about once every 30,000 words. Its most frequent form is Millionen (#213).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 73% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,670Vorwürfeaccusations, reproaches
- 2,671der Meistermaster (craftsman); champion
- 2,672deinemyour (dative, masc./neut.)
- 2,673frühzeitigearly, in good time
- 2,674die Millionmillion
- 2,675künstlicheartificial
- 2,676wertvollevaluable
- 2,677die Botschaftembassy; message
- 2,678politischpolitical, politically
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,674
- The most common German nouns#1,122
- German A2 vocabulary#596
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#368
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.