das Buch
Meaning in English: book
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Welches Buch liest du gerade?
Which book are you reading at the moment?
Der, die or das?
Buch is neuter: das Buch. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Buch in the top 5,000
These forms of Buch are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Im Urlaub lese ich gern dicke Bücher.
On holiday I like reading thick books.
How common is Buch?
Buch is number 912 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 97 times per million words — about once every 10,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 64% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 908verlorenlost
- 909komplettcomplete(ly)
- 910scheintseems; shines
- 911Gründenreasons (dative plural)
- 912das Buchbook
- 913längerlonger
- 914das Systemsystem
- 915die Einrichtungfacility, institution; furnishings
- 916die Kunstart
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#912
- The 5,000 most common German words#912
- The most common German nouns#309
- German A1 vocabulary#346
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#36
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.