German noun, masculine · CEFR A1
der Bauch
Meaning in English: stomach, belly
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Body parts in German list.
Example
Nach dem Essen tut mir der Bauch weh.
My stomach hurts after eating.
Der, die or das?
Bauch is masculine: der Bauch. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Bauch?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Bauch appears 12 times per million words — about once every 86,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
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