German noun, masculine · CEFR A2
der Boden
Meaning in English: floor, ground, soil
Example
Die Kinder sitzen auf dem Boden und spielen.
The children are sitting on the floor playing.
Der, die or das?
Boden is masculine: der Boden. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Boden?
Boden is number 1,090 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 83 times per million words — about once every 12,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 65% 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
- 1,086verpflichtetobliged, committed
- 1,087der Toddeath
- 1,088stattfindento take place
- 1,089profitierento benefit, to profit
- 1,090der Bodenfloor, ground, soil
- 1,091erwartento expect, to wait for
- 1,092die Stundehour, lesson
- 1,093automatischautomatic(ally)
- 1,094sodassso that
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,090
- The most common German nouns#383
- German A2 vocabulary#262
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#106
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.