German noun, masculine · CEFR A2
der Balkon
Meaning in English: balcony
Example
Im Sommer frühstücken wir auf dem Balkon.
In summer we have breakfast on the balcony.
Der, die or das?
Balkon is masculine: der Balkon. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Balkon?
Balkon is number 4,658 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 17 times per million words — about once every 58,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,654massivemassive, huge, severe
- 4,655die Anlaufstellepoint of contact, drop-in centre
- 4,656zugreifento access; to help oneself
- 4,657der Klassikerclassic
- 4,658der Balkonbalcony
- 4,659das Phänomenphenomenon
- 4,660die Kontaktaufnahmegetting in touch, making contact
- 4,661unterhaltento talk, to chat; to entertain
- 4,662Fahrgästepassengers
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- The 5,000 most common German words#4,658
- The most common German nouns#2,037
- German A2 vocabulary#922
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#510
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