German noun, neuter · CEFR A2
das Dach
Meaning in English: roof
Example
Die Katze sitzt auf dem Dach.
The cat is sitting on the roof.
Der, die or das?
Dach is neuter: das Dach. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Dach?
Dach is number 1,922 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 48 times per million words — about once every 21,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 70% 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
- 1,918entlangalong
- 1,919geprägtshaped, characterised
- 1,920Fachkräfteskilled workers
- 1,921Präsidentenpresident (acc./dat.), presidents
- 1,922das Dachroof
- 1,923umsoall the (umso besser: all the better)
- 1,924gelöschtdeleted; extinguished
- 1,925Einschränkungenrestrictions, limitations
- 1,926festgestelltfound, established, noticed
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,922
- The most common German nouns#761
- German A2 vocabulary#453
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#100
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