German noun, neuter · CEFR A2
das Zentrum
Meaning in English: centre
Example
Unser Hotel liegt direkt im Zentrum.
Our hotel is right in the centre.
Der, die or das?
Zentrum is neuter: das Zentrum. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -um are das in 17 of 24 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Zentrum?
Zentrum is number 1,060 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 85 times per million words — about once every 12,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 65% 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
- 1,056zahlreichennumerous
- 1,057der Herbstautumn, fall
- 1,058die CoronaCovid, coronavirus
- 1,059gesehenseen
- 1,060das Zentrumcentre
- 1,061Wegeways, paths
- 1,062Schülernpupils, students (dative)
- 1,063ehemaligenformer
- 1,064sofernprovided that, if
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,060
- The most common German nouns#367
- German A2 vocabulary#254
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#44
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.