das Quartal
Meaning in English: quarter (of a year)
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Die Rechnung kommt einmal im Quartal.
The bill comes once a quarter.
Der, die or das?
Quartal is neuter: das Quartal. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -al are das in 9 of 11 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Quartal?
Quartal is number 2,015 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 45 times per million words — about once every 22,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 71% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,011kritisiertcriticised
- 2,012Artenkinds, types, species
- 2,013Bedürfnisseneeds
- 2,014sprachenspoke, talked (past)
- 2,015das Quartalquarter (of a year)
- 2,016unterschiedlichdifferent, varying
- 2,017Diensteservices
- 2,018Rahmenbedingungengeneral conditions, framework
- 2,019die Spitzetop, tip, peak; lace
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,015
- The most common German nouns#806
- German B2 vocabulary#318
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#103
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.