German noun, feminine · CEFR A1
die Bahn
Meaning in English: railway, train, track
Example
Ich fahre jeden Tag mit der Bahn zur Arbeit.
I take the train to work every day.
Der, die or das?
Bahn is feminine: die Bahn. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Bahn?
Bahn is number 1,127 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 80 times per million words — about once every 13,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 65% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
Related words in the list
Words built on Bahn:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,123Videosvideos
- 1,124Autoscars
- 1,125allgemeinengeneral
- 1,126die Integrationintegration
- 1,127die Bahnrailway, train, track
- 1,128die Mengeamount, lot, crowd
- 1,129meinenmy (acc. masc., dat. pl.)
- 1,130der Punktpoint, dot, full stop
- 1,131wartento wait
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,127
- The most common German nouns#399
- German A1 vocabulary#384
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#138
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.