Jahrzehnt
German, noun/ja(ːɐ̯)ˈtseːnt/
Jahrzehnt is spelled J-A-H-R-Z-E-H-N-T (9 letters) and appears 7.6 times per million words in written German, the 8,847th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Jahrzehnt is a German neuter noun meaning “decade” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “ein Zeitraum von zehn Jahren (vom 1. 1. xxx1 bis 31. 12. xxx0)”.
What does Jahrzehnt mean in English?
noun
- 1
neuterdecade
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ein Zeitraum von zehn Jahren (vom 1. 1. xxx1 bis 31. 12. xxx0)
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Jahrzehnt
- Jahrzehntes genitive
- Jahrzehnts genitive
- Jahrzehnte plural
- Jahrzehnten dative definite plural
- Jahrzehnd obsolete
- Jahrzehend variant archaic
- Jahrzehent variant
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Jahrzehnt?
- /ja(ːɐ̯)ˈtseːnt/
- [ˌjaːɐ̯ˈt͡seːnt]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Jahrzehnt
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Jahrzehnt in German?
Jahrzehnt appears 7.6 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).