German noun, masculine · CEFR B1
der Alltag
Meaning in English: everyday life
Example
Im Alltag spreche ich kaum Englisch.
In everyday life I hardly speak English.
Der, die or das?
Alltag is masculine: der Alltag. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Alltag?
Alltag is number 790 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 113 times per million words — about once every 8,900 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 62% 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
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#790
- The 5,000 most common German words#790
- The most common German nouns#253
- German B1 vocabulary#197
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#71
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