German noun, neuter · CEFR A2
das Öl
Meaning in English: oil
Example
Gib etwas Öl in die Pfanne.
Put some oil in the pan.
Der, die or das?
Öl is neuter: das Öl. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Öl?
Öl is number 3,630 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 23 times per million words — about once every 43,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% 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
- 3,626unterliegento be subject to; to lose (to)
- 3,627Freistaatesfree state (genitive)
- 3,628berechnetcalculated; charged
- 3,629die Meldungreport, news item; notification
- 3,630das Öloil
- 3,631der Mietvertragtenancy agreement, lease
- 3,632die Empfehlungrecommendation
- 3,633Migrantenmigrants
- 3,634Tatendeeds, acts
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,630
- The most common German nouns#1,552
- German A2 vocabulary#769
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#191
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