German noun, masculine · CEFR B2
der Absatz
Meaning in English: paragraph, heel, sales
Example
Bitte lesen Sie den zweiten Absatz noch einmal.
Please read the second paragraph again.
Der, die or das?
Absatz is masculine: der Absatz. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Absatz?
Absatz is number 1,226 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 75 times per million words — about once every 13,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 66% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,222der Wettbewerbcompetition
- 1,223genanntenmentioned, named
- 1,224getroffenmet, hit, made (a decision)
- 1,225das Glückluck, happiness
- 1,226der Absatzparagraph, heel, sales
- 1,227der Wunschwish, request
- 1,228der Dienstservice, duty, shift
- 1,229beginnento begin, to start
- 1,230der Ballball
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,226
- The most common German nouns#443
- German B2 vocabulary#155
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#125
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.