German noun, masculine · CEFR A2
der Alkohol
Meaning in English: alcohol
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Er trinkt überhaupt keinen Alkohol.
He doesn't drink any alcohol at all.
Der, die or das?
Alkohol is masculine: der Alkohol. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Alkohol?
Alkohol is number 2,595 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 35 times per million words — about once every 29,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 73% 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
- 2,591Initiativeninitiatives
- 2,592erzieltachieved, scored
- 2,593der Ministerminister
- 2,594die BundesrepublikFederal Republic
- 2,595der Alkoholalcohol
- 2,596kurzfristigat short notice, short-term
- 2,597Studiengängedegree programmes
- 2,598Erfolgesuccesses
- 2,599durftewas allowed to
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,595
- The most common German nouns#1,087
- German A2 vocabulary#585
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#286
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.