German noun, neuter · CEFR B2
das Vorjahr
Meaning in English: previous year
Example
Im Vorjahr war der Winter viel kälter.
The year before, winter was much colder.
Der, die or das?
Vorjahr is neuter: das Vorjahr. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Vorjahr?
Vorjahr is number 1,437 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 64 times per million words — about once every 16,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 68% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Related words in the list
Vorjahr is built from das Jahr (year).
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,433Bürgerinnencitizens (female)
- 1,434die Serieseries
- 1,435der Arztdoctor
- 1,436besserebetter
- 1,437das Vorjahrprevious year
- 1,438das Institutinstitute
- 1,439wolltenwanted
- 1,440zunehmendincreasingly
- 1,441findefind, think
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,437
- The most common German nouns#542
- German B2 vocabulary#200
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#68
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