German noun, masculine · CEFR B1
der Schnitt
Meaning in English: cut; average (im Schnitt)
Example
Im Schnitt schlafe ich sieben Stunden.
On average I sleep seven hours.
Der, die or das?
Schnitt is masculine: der Schnitt. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Schnitt?
Schnitt is number 2,386 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 38 times per million words — about once every 27,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 72% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Related words in the list
Words built on Schnitt:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,382historischehistoric, historical (inflected)
- 2,383gesundhealthy
- 2,384nachhaltigensustainable (inflected)
- 2,385gesetzlichlegal, statutory
- 2,386der Schnittcut; average (im Schnitt)
- 2,387die Abteilungdepartment
- 2,388produziertproduced
- 2,389besitzento own, to possess
- 2,390direktendirect (inflected)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,386
- The most common German nouns#990
- German B1 vocabulary#767
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#260
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