German noun, neuter · CEFR A1
das Büro
Meaning in English: office
Example
Morgen arbeite ich von zu Hause, nicht im Büro.
Tomorrow I'm working from home, not in the office.
Der, die or das?
Büro is neuter: das Büro. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -o are das in 13 of 14 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Büro?
Büro is number 2,190 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 41 times per million words — about once every 24,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 72% 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
- 2,186heuerthis year (southern German/Austrian)
- 2,187Toregoals; gates
- 2,188die Geburtbirth
- 2,189schließtcloses, shuts; concludes
- 2,190das Bürooffice
- 2,191die Tourtour, trip
- 2,192finanziertfinanced, funded
- 2,193das Potenzialpotential
- 2,194vorausahead, in advance
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,190
- The most common German nouns#898
- German A1 vocabulary#555
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#112
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.