German noun, masculine · CEFR B2

der Zeitpunkt

Meaning in English: point in time, moment

Rank 751 of 5,000noun · derLevel B2
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Example

Der Zeitpunkt ist gerade nicht so günstig.

The timing isn't great right now.

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Zeitpunkt is masculine: der Zeitpunkt. How to tell the gender from the ending.

How common is Zeitpunkt?

Zeitpunkt is number 751 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 119 times per million words — about once every 8,400 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 62% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.

Related words in the list

Zeitpunkt is built from die Zeit (time) + der Punkt (point, dot, full stop).

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 747bedarfrequires, needs (+ genitive)
  2. 748das Badbathroom; bath
  3. 749offenopen
  4. 750Ideenideas
  5. 751der Zeitpunktpoint in time, moment
  6. 752bevorbefore (conjunction)
  7. 753der Startstart; take-off
  8. 754die Sprachelanguage
  9. 755der Unterrichtlessons, class, teaching

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