der Baum
Meaning in English: tree
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Die Katze sitzt oben auf dem Baum.
The cat is sitting up in the tree.
Der, die or das?
Baum is masculine: der Baum. Careful: it is an exception. Nouns ending in -um are usually das (17 of 24 in the list). How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Baum in the top 5,000
These forms of Baum are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Im Herbst verlieren die Bäume ihre Blätter.
In autumn the trees lose their leaves.
How common is Baum?
Baum is number 2,756 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 32 times per million words — about once every 31,000 words. Its most frequent form is Bäume (#2,135).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 74% 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
- 2,752wartetwaits, is waiting
- 2,753Generationengenerations
- 2,754einfachensimple, easy
- 2,755die Agenturagency
- 2,756der Baumtree
- 2,757kritischcritical, critically
- 2,758zulässigpermitted, allowed
- 2,759täglichendaily
- 2,760engeclose, narrow, tight
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,756
- The most common German nouns#1,155
- German A2 vocabulary#617
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#303
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.