die Art
Meaning in English: kind, type; manner
False friend: Art is not “art”. It means kind, type or manner. Art as in painting is die Kunst. More false friends.
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Welche Art von Musik hörst du gern?
What kind of music do you like?
Der, die or das?
Art is feminine: die Art. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Art in the top 5,000
These forms of Art are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
In diesem Wald leben viele seltene Arten.
Many rare species live in this forest.
How common is Art?
Art is number 310 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 278 times per million words — about once every 3,600 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 54% 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
- 306der SeptemberSeptember
- 307insbesonderein particular, especially
- 308nichtsnothing
- 309jeever; each; je … desto
- 310die Artkind, type; manner
- 311gemachtmade, done
- 312der Einsatzuse, deployment; effort
- 313würdewould
- 314lässtlets; leaves; has (done)
In these word lists
- The 500 most common German words#310
- The 1,000 most common German words#310
- The 5,000 most common German words#310
- The most common German nouns#50
- German A2 vocabulary#70
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#16
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.