die Minute
Meaning in English: minute
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
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Warte kurz, ich bin in einer Minute da.
Wait a sec, I'll be there in a minute.
Der, die or das?
Minute is feminine: die Minute. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -e are die in 170 of 193 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Minute in the top 5,000
These forms of Minute are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Die Pizza braucht noch zehn Minuten.
The pizza needs another ten minutes.
How common is Minute?
Minute is number 1,422 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 64 times per million words — about once every 16,000 words. Its most frequent form is Minuten (#451).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 68% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,418der Namename
- 1,419das Umfeldenvironment, circle, surroundings
- 1,420lieberrather, preferably
- 1,421Gründereasons
- 1,422die Minuteminute
- 1,423der Mittelpunktcentre, focus
- 1,424die Anfrageenquiry, request
- 1,425die Jugendyouth
- 1,426heutigentoday's, present-day
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,422
- The most common German nouns#532
- German A1 vocabulary#431
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#187
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.