German noun, masculine · CEFR B2
Toten
Meaning in English: dead (people), deaths
This is a form of Tote, which is not in the top 5,000 on its own.
Example
Bei dem Unfall gab es zum Glück keine Toten.
Fortunately nobody was killed in the accident.
How common is Toten?
Toten is number 3,130 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 28 times per million words — about once every 36,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 75% 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
- 3,126Fächersubjects; compartments
- 3,127das Grundstückplot of land, property
- 3,128die Pressemitteilungpress release
- 3,129das Maßmeasure, degree, extent
- 3,130Totendead (people), deaths
- 3,131bearbeitetprocessed, edited, dealt with
- 3,132der Aufenthaltstay
- 3,133eröffnento open (up)
- 3,134wiederholtrepeated(ly); repeats
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