der Bus
Meaning in English: bus
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
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Der Bus hat heute schon wieder Verspätung.
The bus is late again today.
Der, die or das?
Bus is masculine: der Bus. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Bus in the top 5,000
These forms of Bus are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Am Sonntag fahren nur wenige Busse.
Only a few buses run on Sundays.
How common is Bus?
Bus is number 2,355 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 38 times per million words — about once every 26,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 72% 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
- 2,351die Ausstattungequipment, furnishings, features
- 2,352erforderlichenrequired, necessary (inflected)
- 2,353der Unternehmerentrepreneur(s), business owner(s)
- 2,354manchensome (inflected)
- 2,355der Busbus
- 2,356der Veranstalterorganiser(s), promoter(s)
- 2,357die Auszeichnungaward, honour; distinction
- 2,358Universitätenuniversities
- 2,359Vereinsof the club (genitive)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,355
- The most common German nouns#976
- German A1 vocabulary#573
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#255
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.