Vokabahn

das Jahr

A1 Noun frequency rank #101

What Jahr means

Noun

  1. year (solar year, the time it takes the Earth to complete one orbit of the Sun)
  2. year (time it takes for any astronomical object to directly orbit its star)
  3. year (period between set dates that mark a year)
  4. year (level or grade in school or college)

Forms

das Jahr · die Jahre

Plural: Jahre

Pronunciation

Jahr in a sentence

Wie viele Weihnachtskarten hast du letztes Jahr geschrieben?

How many Christmas cards did you write last year?

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Jahr is A1 German — one of the first words a beginner meets, ranked #101 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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