German noun, masculine · CEFR A2
der Daumen
Meaning in English: thumb
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Body parts in German list.
Example
Ich drücke dir die Daumen!
I'll keep my fingers crossed for you!
Der, die or das?
Daumen is masculine: der Daumen. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Daumen?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Daumen appears 7.7 times per million words — about once every 130,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
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