German noun, masculine · CEFR A1
der August
Meaning in English: August
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Im August machen viele Geschäfte Urlaub.
Many shops close for holidays in August.
Der, die or das?
August is masculine: der August. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is August?
August is number 460 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 190 times per million words — about once every 5,300 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 57% 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
- 456der AprilApril
- 457der Beginnbeginning, start
- 458der DezemberDecember
- 459setztsets, puts; sits (sich)
- 460der AugustAugust
- 461dadurchas a result, thereby; through it
- 462setzento set, to put; sich setzen = sit down
- 463die Zusammenarbeitcooperation, collaboration
- 464haltento hold; to stop; to keep
In these word lists
- The 500 most common German words#460
- The 1,000 most common German words#460
- The 5,000 most common German words#460
- The most common German nouns#106
- German A1 vocabulary#251
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#34
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.