German noun, neuter · CEFR B1
das Prinzip
Meaning in English: principle
Example
Im Prinzip hast du recht.
In principle you're right.
Der, die or das?
Prinzip is neuter: das Prinzip. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Prinzip?
Prinzip is number 3,061 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 28 times per million words — about once every 35,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 75% 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
- 3,057schlechtebad, poor
- 3,058die Beschäftigungemployment, occupation, activity
- 3,059die Partnerschaftpartnership, relationship
- 3,060das Passwortpassword
- 3,061das Prinzipprinciple
- 3,062sterbento die
- 3,063Gerätendevices, appliances (dative pl.)
- 3,064hilfreichhelpful
- 3,065erschienenpublished, appeared
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,061
- The most common German nouns#1,292
- German B1 vocabulary#988
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#152
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