der Zentimeter
Meaning in English: centimetre
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Das Bild ist dreißig Zentimeter breit.
The picture is thirty centimetres wide.
Der, die or das?
Zentimeter is masculine: der Zentimeter. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -er are der in 126 of 160 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Zentimeter in the top 5,000
These forms of Zentimeter are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Der Tisch ist genau 80 cm breit.
The table is exactly 80 cm wide.
How common is Zentimeter?
Zentimeter is number 3,755 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 22 times per million words — about once every 45,000 words. Its most frequent form is cm (#2,342).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,751komplexecomplex
- 3,752westlichenwestern
- 3,753ruhigquiet, calm
- 3,754äußerteexpressed, voiced
- 3,755der Zentimetercentimetre
- 3,756der Patientpatient
- 3,757Maßemeasurements, dimensions
- 3,758Kilometernkilometres (dative pl.)
- 3,759Modulemodules
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,755
- The most common German nouns#1,610
- German A2 vocabulary#789
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#413
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.