German noun, masculine · CEFR A1
der Ball
Meaning in English: ball
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Die Kinder spielen im Garten mit dem Ball.
The children are playing with the ball in the garden.
Der, die or das?
Ball is masculine: der Ball. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Ball?
Ball is number 1,230 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 74 times per million words — about once every 13,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 66% 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 Ball:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,226der Absatzparagraph, heel, sales
- 1,227der Wunschwish, request
- 1,228der Dienstservice, duty, shift
- 1,229beginnento begin, to start
- 1,230der Ballball
- 1,231persönlichpersonal(ly), in person
- 1,232ausreichendsufficient, enough
- 1,233die Bewegungmovement, exercise
- 1,234die Reisetrip, journey
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,230
- The most common German nouns#446
- German A1 vocabulary#397
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#128
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.