die Autobahn
Meaning in English: motorway, highway
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Auf der Autobahn war viel Stau.
There were a lot of traffic jams on the motorway.
Der, die or das?
Autobahn is feminine: die Autobahn. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Autobahn?
Autobahn is number 2,524 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 36 times per million words — about once every 28,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 73% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Related words in the list
Autobahn is built from das Auto (car) + die Bahn (railway, train, track).
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,520Konzepteconcepts, plans
- 2,521festgenommenarrested
- 2,522praktischenpractical
- 2,523organisierenorganise
- 2,524die Autobahnmotorway, highway
- 2,525spätlate
- 2,526das Radioradio
- 2,527verbindenconnect, combine
- 2,528hintenat the back, behind
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,524
- The most common German nouns#1,050
- German A2 vocabulary#569
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#346
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.