German noun, neuter · CEFR A2
das Ausland
Meaning in English: abroad, foreign countries
Example
Meine Tochter studiert im Ausland.
My daughter is studying abroad.
Der, die or das?
Ausland is neuter: das Ausland. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Ausland?
Ausland is number 895 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 99 times per million words — about once every 10,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 63% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Related words in the list
Ausland is built from das Land (country; land; countryside).
Next to it in the frequency list
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#895
- The 5,000 most common German words#895
- The most common German nouns#301
- German A2 vocabulary#214
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#34
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