German noun, feminine · CEFR A2
die Mitte
Meaning in English: middle, centre; mid-
Example
Ich komme Mitte Mai zurück.
I'll be back in mid-May.
Der, die or das?
Mitte is feminine: die Mitte. 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.
How common is Mitte?
Mitte is number 623 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 144 times per million words — about once every 7,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 60% 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
- 619das Interesseinterest
- 620Ergebnisseresults
- 621Ländercountries
- 622die GmbHlimited company (Ltd.)
- 623die Mittemiddle, centre; mid-
- 624der Vergleichcomparison
- 625Namenname (acc./dat.); names
- 626könnecan, could (reported speech)
- 627Studierendenstudents
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#623
- The 5,000 most common German words#623
- The most common German nouns#171
- German A2 vocabulary#155
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#59
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.