die Sekunde
Meaning in English: second
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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Warte eine Sekunde, ich komme gleich!
Wait a second, I'm just coming!
Der, die or das?
Sekunde is feminine: die Sekunde. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -e are die in 170 of 193 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Sekunde in the top 5,000
Sekunde itself is not in the top 5,000, but this form of it is:
Das Wasser kocht in wenigen Sekunden.
The water boils in a few seconds.
How common is Sekunde?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Sekunde appears 15 times per million words — about once every 66,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million. Its form Sekunden (#1,891) is in the top 5,000, though.
A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Time words: more words
- die Zeittime
- die Uhrclock, watch; o'clock
- die Stundehour, lesson
- die Minuteminute
- der Vormittagmorning (before noon)
- der Mittagnoon, midday, lunch
- der Nachmittagafternoon
- der Abendevening
- die Nachtnight
- die Mitternachtmidnight
- heutetoday
- morgentomorrow
- gesternyesterday
- übermorgenthe day after tomorrow
- vorgesternthe day before yesterday
- jetztnow
In these word lists
- Time words in German30 words
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.