German noun, masculine · CEFR A2
der Bär
Meaning in English: bear
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Animals in German list.
Example
Der Bär schläft den ganzen Winter.
The bear sleeps all winter.
Der, die or das?
Bär is masculine: der Bär. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Bär?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Bär appears 7.0 times per million words — about once every 140,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
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