German noun, masculine · CEFR B2
der Aufbau
Meaning in English: structure, setup, construction
Example
Der Aufbau des Zeltes dauerte eine Stunde.
Putting up the tent took an hour.
Der, die or das?
Aufbau is masculine: der Aufbau. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Aufbau?
Aufbau is number 1,495 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 62 times per million words — about once every 16,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 68% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,491die Infrastrukturinfrastructure
- 1,492die Unterlagendocuments, papers
- 1,493das Smartphonesmartphone
- 1,494der Handeltrade, retail
- 1,495der Aufbaustructure, setup, construction
- 1,496Ärztedoctors
- 1,497die Vielzahlmultitude, large number
- 1,498Gerätedevices, appliances
- 1,499kostetcosts
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,495
- The most common German nouns#569
- German B2 vocabulary#216
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#158
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