das Abendessen
Meaning in English: dinner, supper
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Food and drink in German list.
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Zum Abendessen gibt es heute Suppe.
There's soup for dinner tonight.
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Abendessen is neuter: das Abendessen. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Abendessen?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Abendessen appears 7.3 times per million words — about once every 140,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
Related words in the list
Abendessen is built from der Abend (evening).
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