der Termin
Meaning in English: appointment, date
False friend: Termin is not “term”. It is an appointment or a date. A school term is ein Semester or Halbjahr. More false friends.
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Ich habe morgen um neun einen Termin beim Zahnarzt.
I have a dentist's appointment at nine tomorrow.
Der, die or das?
Termin is masculine: der Termin. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Termin in the top 5,000
These forms of Termin are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Diese Woche habe ich viele Termine.
I have a lot of appointments this week.
How common is Termin?
Termin is number 1,247 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 73 times per million words — about once every 14,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 66% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
Next to it in the frequency list
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,247
- The most common German nouns#452
- German A1 vocabulary#402
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#130
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.