German noun, feminine · CEFR A2

die Mitternacht

Meaning in English: midnight

Basic word, outside the top 5,000noun · dieLevel A2

Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Time words in German list.

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Example

Um Mitternacht stoßen wir an.

We'll raise a toast at midnight.

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Mitternacht is feminine: die Mitternacht. How to tell the gender from the ending.

How common is Mitternacht?

In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Mitternacht appears 13 times per million words — about once every 79,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.

A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.

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