die Zeit
Meaning in English: time
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Hast du am Samstag Zeit?
Do you have time on Saturday?
Der, die or das?
Zeit is feminine: die Zeit. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Zeit in the top 5,000
These forms of Zeit are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Das waren schöne Zeiten!
Those were good times!
How common is Zeit?
Zeit is number 120 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 714 times per million words — about once every 1,400 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 46% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
Related words in the list
Words built on Zeit:
- der Zeitpunktpoint in time, moment
- der Zeitraumperiod (of time)
- die Freizeitfree time, leisure
- die Laufzeitterm, duration; running time
- zeitweiseat times, temporarily
- die Amtszeitterm of office
- zeitnahpromptly, soon
- die Spielzeitseason, playing time
- die Arbeitszeitworking hours
- zeitgleichsimultaneously, at the same time
- die Hochzeitwedding
- die Jahreszeitseason
Next to it in the frequency list
In these word lists
- The 500 most common German words#120
- The 1,000 most common German words#120
- The 5,000 most common German words#120
- The most common German nouns#7
- German A1 vocabulary#97
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#1
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.