German noun, masculine · CEFR B1
der Beginn
Meaning in English: beginning, start
Example
Bitte seien Sie zehn Minuten vor Beginn da.
Please be there ten minutes before the start.
Der, die or das?
Beginn is masculine: der Beginn. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Beginn?
Beginn is number 457 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 192 times per million words — about once every 5,200 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 57% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 453unseremour (dative, masc./neut.)
- 454die Wirtschafteconomy; pub, inn
- 455der DonnerstagThursday
- 456der AprilApril
- 457der Beginnbeginning, start
- 458der DezemberDecember
- 459setztsets, puts; sits (sich)
- 460der AugustAugust
- 461dadurchas a result, thereby; through it
In these word lists
- The 500 most common German words#457
- The 1,000 most common German words#457
- The 5,000 most common German words#457
- The most common German nouns#104
- German B1 vocabulary#80
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#32
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.