German noun, masculine · CEFR A1
der Bahnhof
Meaning in English: (railway) station
Example
Ich hole dich um sieben am Bahnhof ab.
I'll pick you up at the station at seven.
Der, die or das?
Bahnhof is masculine: der Bahnhof. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Bahnhof?
Bahnhof is number 2,361 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 38 times per million words — about once every 26,000 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.
Related words in the list
Bahnhof is built from die Bahn (railway, train, track).
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,357die Auszeichnungaward, honour; distinction
- 2,358Universitätenuniversities
- 2,359Vereinsof the club (genitive)
- 2,360legtelaid, put (past)
- 2,361der Bahnhof(railway) station
- 2,362höchstenhighest (inflected)
- 2,363das Fernsehentelevision, TV
- 2,364die Vernetzungnetworking, (inter)connection
- 2,365löschento delete; to extinguish
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,361
- The most common German nouns#981
- German A1 vocabulary#574
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#257
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