der Affe
Meaning in English: monkey, ape
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Animals in German list.
Example
Der Affe klettert auf den Baum.
The monkey climbs up the tree.
Der, die or das?
Affe is masculine: der Affe. Careful: it is an exception. Nouns ending in -e are usually die (170 of 193 in the list). How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Affe?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Affe appears 1.0 time per million words — about once every 970,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
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Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.