German noun, masculine · CEFR A2
der Dollar
Meaning in English: dollar
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Das T-Shirt kostet zwanzig Dollar.
The T-shirt costs twenty dollars.
Der, die or das?
Dollar is masculine: der Dollar. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Dollar?
Dollar is number 1,400 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 65 times per million words — about once every 15,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 67% 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
- 1,396verfügthas, possesses
- 1,397ausgezeichnetexcellent; awarded
- 1,398die Redespeech, talk
- 1,399schwereheavy, serious, difficult
- 1,400der Dollardollar
- 1,401der Ausbauexpansion, extension
- 1,402erstelltcreated, drawn up
- 1,403meinemmy (dative masc./neut.)
- 1,404die Einführungintroduction
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,400
- The most common German nouns#521
- German A2 vocabulary#327
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#142
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.