German number · CEFR A1
sechzig
Meaning in English: sixty
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Numbers in German list.
Example
Meine Oma ist über sechzig.
My grandma is over sixty.
How common is sechzig?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, sechzig appears 1.6 times per million words — about once every 620,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
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