der Abstand
Meaning in English: distance, gap
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Bitte halten Sie Abstand zum Vordermann.
Please keep your distance from the person in front.
Der, die or das?
Abstand is masculine: der Abstand. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Abstand in the top 5,000
These forms of Abstand are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Die Busse fahren in kurzen Abständen.
The buses run at short intervals.
How common is Abstand?
Abstand is number 1,864 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 49 times per million words — about once every 20,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 70% 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
- 1,860Dienstleistungenservices
- 1,861geratengot (into); advised
- 1,862die Bewertungrating, review, assessment
- 1,863gemeldetreported, registered
- 1,864der Abstanddistance, gap
- 1,865fandenfound; thought
- 1,866der Studiengangdegree programme, course
- 1,867richtento direct, to address; to judge
- 1,868meintthinks, means, says
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,864
- The most common German nouns#740
- German B1 vocabulary#587
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#196
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.