das Bein
Meaning in English: leg
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.
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Er hat sich beim Skifahren das Bein gebrochen.
He broke his leg skiing.
Der, die or das?
Bein is neuter: das Bein. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Bein in the top 5,000
Bein itself is not in the top 5,000, but this form of it is:
Nach der Wanderung tun mir die Beine weh.
My legs hurt after the hike.
How common is Bein?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Bein appears 10 times per million words — about once every 99,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million. Its form Beine (#3,876) is in the top 5,000, though.
A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
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