die Tat
Meaning in English: deed, act, crime
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Der Mann hat die Tat inzwischen gestanden.
The man has since confessed to the crime.
Der, die or das?
Tat is feminine: die Tat. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Tat in the top 5,000
These forms of Tat are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Worte sind gut, aber Taten zählen mehr.
Words are fine, but actions count for more.
How common is Tat?
Tat is number 1,295 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 71 times per million words — about once every 14,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 67% 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
- 1,291die Staatsanwaltschaftpublic prosecutor's office
- 1,292das Gerätdevice, appliance
- 1,293untenbelow, downstairs
- 1,294genanntcalled, named, mentioned
- 1,295die Tatdeed, act, crime
- 1,296die Nachfragedemand, enquiry
- 1,297FrankreichFrance
- 1,298deutscherGerman
- 1,299spätestensat the latest
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,295
- The most common German nouns#469
- German B2 vocabulary#169
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#164
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.