das Album
Meaning in English: album
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Die Band bringt im Herbst ein neues Album heraus.
The band is releasing a new album in autumn.
Der, die or das?
Album is neuter: das Album. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -um are das in 17 of 24 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Album?
Album is number 3,345 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 25 times per million words — about once every 39,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 75% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,341die Spendedonation
- 3,342Aufnahmenrecordings, photos, shots
- 3,343die Kommunemunicipality, local authority
- 3,344gewünschtendesired, requested
- 3,345das Albumalbum
- 3,346ausgerichtetaimed, geared; hosted
- 3,347schönstenmost beautiful, nicest
- 3,348weißewhite
- 3,349sonstigeother, miscellaneous
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,345
- The most common German nouns#1,417
- German A2 vocabulary#712
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#174
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.