Definition
A period of twelve months.
Translations
- English
- year
- Français
- année
- Türkçe
- yıl
- Polski
- rok
- Русский
- год
- Українська
- рік
GERMAN DICTIONARY
das Jahr
- A1
- Noun
- Time & Calendar
- Numbers & Measurements
year
/das ˈjaːɐ̯/
Meaning and translations
Meaning, definition and translations of this sense.
Grammar & classification
Main grammatical and classification properties of the word.
- Article
- das
- Gender
- Neuter
- Plural
- Jahre
- Part of speech
- Noun
- CEFR level
- A1
- Morphology
- Simple word
- Topics
- Time & CalendarPrimaryNumbers & Measurements
Usage examples
Examples showing real usage and grammatical forms.
- Ein Jahr hat zwölf Monate.NominativSing.A year has twelve months.
- Das Jahr beginnt mit Januar.NominativSing.The year begins with January.
- Nächstes Jahr fahre ich nach Wien.AkkusativSing.Next year I am going to Vienna.
- Am Ende des Jahres machen wir Urlaub.GenitivSing.At the end of the year, we go on holiday.
- Die letzten Jahre sind sehr schnell vergangen.NominativPlur.The last few years passed very quickly.
- Ich habe dort fünf Jahre gearbeitet.AkkusativPlur.I worked there for five years.
- In den letzten Jahren hat sich viel verändert.DativPlur.A lot has changed in recent years.
Pronunciation and forms
Pronunciation and audio for the lemma and important forms.
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Lemma
Jahr/jaːɐ̯/
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Article phrase
das Jahr/das ˈjaːɐ̯/
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Plural
Jahre/ˈjaːʁə/
Declension / Forms
How the noun changes across German cases and singular or plural.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominativ | das Jahr | die Jahre |
| Akkusativ | das Jahr | die Jahre |
| Dativ | dem Jahr | den Jahren |
| Genitiv | des Jahres | der Jahre |
Usage and collocations
Typical constructions, prepositions and word combinations.
- Sentence patternnächstes Jahr
- Sentence patterndieses Jahr
Semantic relations
How this meaning relates to other meanings and easily confused words.
No semantic relations have been added for this sense.
Word formation and word family
How the word is formed and its reviewed lexical family.
Formation typeSimple word