das Abenteuer
Meaning in English: adventure
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Die Reise durch Kanada war ein echtes Abenteuer.
The trip through Canada was a real adventure.
Der, die or das?
Abenteuer is neuter: das Abenteuer. Careful: it is an exception. Nouns ending in -er are usually der (126 of 160 in the list). How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Abenteuer?
Abenteuer is number 4,135 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 20 times per million words — about once every 50,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,131der Rückstanddeficit, arrears, backlog
- 4,132österreichischeAustrian
- 4,133demokratischendemocratic
- 4,134gesunkenfallen, sunk
- 4,135das Abenteueradventure
- 4,136der Regisseur(film) director
- 4,137umfassento comprise, to include
- 4,138modernermore modern; modern (inflected)
- 4,139Ärztendoctors (dative)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,135
- The most common German nouns#1,790
- German B1 vocabulary#1,338
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#217
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.