Vokabahn

das Alter

A1 Noun / Interjection frequency rank #318

What Alter means

Noun

  1. age, old age
  2. antiquity
  3. epoch, age
  4. old man; old person
  5. mate, bloke (UK); dude, guy (US); a somewhat intimate or mildly dismissive word for a man, especially but not exclusively used as a vocative

Interjection

  1. man, dude, mate; used for emphasis

Forms

das Alter · die Alter | der Alter · die Alte | Interjection

Plural: Alter

Pronunciation

Alter in a sentence

Das Alter beschleicht uns, ohn’ dass wir’s bemerken.

Old age creeps up on us before we know it.

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Alter is A1 German — one of the first words a beginner meets, ranked #318 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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