German noun, masculine · CEFR A2
der Besuch
Meaning in English: visit; visitors
Example
Morgen bekommen wir Besuch von meiner Tante.
Tomorrow my aunt is coming to visit us.
Der, die or das?
Besuch is masculine: der Besuch. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Besuch?
Besuch is number 727 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 125 times per million words — about once every 8,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 62% 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
- 723der Bürgercitizen(s)
- 724demnachaccordingly, so, according to that
- 725läuftruns, walks; is on (TV)
- 726überhauptat all, anyway
- 727der Besuchvisit; visitors
- 728erforderlichrequired, necessary
- 729freifree, vacant
- 730Studierendestudents
- 731das Engagementcommitment, involvement
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#727
- The 5,000 most common German words#727
- The most common German nouns#219
- German A2 vocabulary#179
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#57
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