German noun, masculine · CEFR B1
der Brand
Meaning in English: fire, blaze
Example
Der Brand in der Küche war schnell gelöscht.
The fire in the kitchen was quickly put out.
Der, die or das?
Brand is masculine: der Brand. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Brand?
Brand is number 1,639 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 56 times per million words — about once every 18,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 69% 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
- 1,635Verletzungeninjuries
- 1,636die Erdeearth, soil, ground
- 1,637erfasstrecorded, registered, gripped
- 1,638interessierteinterested (people)
- 1,639der Brandfire, blaze
- 1,640das Niveaulevel, standard
- 1,641medizinischemedical
- 1,642das Frühjahrspring
- 1,643verfügento have (at one's disposal)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,639
- The most common German nouns#639
- German B1 vocabulary#511
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#176
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