German noun, feminine · CEFR A2
die Band
Meaning in English: band (music), volume
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Mein Bruder spielt Gitarre in einer Band.
My brother plays guitar in a band.
Der, die or das?
Band is feminine: die Band. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Band?
Band is number 1,353 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 67 times per million words — about once every 15,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 67% 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
- 1,349längstlong ago, long since
- 1,350wirktworks, seems
- 1,351Ermittlungeninvestigations
- 1,352Nachrichtennews, messages
- 1,353die Bandband (music), volume
- 1,354übernimmttakes over, takes on
- 1,355Wohnungenflats, apartments
- 1,356ermitteltinvestigated, determined
- 1,357müsstenwould have to, should
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,353
- The most common German nouns#497
- German A2 vocabulary#316
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#175
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.