der Arm
Meaning in English: arm
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
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Sie hat sich beim Skifahren den Arm gebrochen.
She broke her arm skiing.
Der, die or das?
Arm is masculine: der Arm. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Arm in the top 5,000
These forms of Arm are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Mir tun vom Tragen die Arme weh.
My arms hurt from carrying.
How common is Arm?
Arm is number 4,017 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 21 times per million words — about once every 48,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,013die Rechtsgrundlagelegal basis
- 4,014die Performanceperformance
- 4,015kmkm (kilometre)
- 4,016der Aspektaspect
- 4,017der Armarm
- 4,018aussiehtlooks (like)
- 4,019die Diskriminierungdiscrimination
- 4,020die Sparkassesavings bank
- 4,021der Wahlkampfelection campaign
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,017
- The most common German nouns#1,735
- German A1 vocabulary#720
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#442
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.