German noun, neuter · CEFR A2
das Boot
Meaning in English: boat
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Am Wochenende fahren wir mit dem Boot raus.
At the weekend we're going out on the boat.
Der, die or das?
Boot is neuter: das Boot. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Boot?
Boot is number 4,587 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 18 times per million words — about once every 57,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% 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
- 4,583zusammenarbeitento work together, to cooperate
- 4,584Auflagenconditions, requirements; editions
- 4,585wonachwhat... for, after which
- 4,586der Rechnercomputer, calculator
- 4,587das Bootboat
- 4,588tätigento make, to carry out (formal)
- 4,589schulischeschool, academic
- 4,590die Schließungclosure
- 4,591verwendetenused
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,587
- The most common German nouns#2,001
- German A2 vocabulary#912
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#239
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.