German noun, masculine · CEFR A2
der Anfang
Meaning in English: beginning, start
Example
Am Anfang war alles neu für mich.
At the beginning everything was new to me.
Der, die or das?
Anfang is masculine: der Anfang. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Anfang?
Anfang is number 415 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 212 times per million words — about once every 4,700 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 57% 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
- 411der MärzMarch
- 412die Geschichtehistory; story
- 413die Rollerole, part; roll
- 414erfolgttakes place, is carried out
- 415der Anfangbeginning, start
- 416festfirm, solid, fixed
- 417meinemy
- 418klarclear; sure, of course
- 419die Straßestreet, road
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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.