German noun, neuter · CEFR A2
das Dorf
Meaning in English: village
Example
Sie wohnt in einem kleinen Dorf.
She lives in a small village.
Der, die or das?
Dorf is neuter: das Dorf. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Dorf?
Dorf is number 2,718 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 33 times per million words — about once every 30,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 74% 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
- 2,714Geschäfteshops; deals, business
- 2,715die Fluchtescape, flight
- 2,716stammencome from, originate
- 2,717teurermore expensive
- 2,718das Dorfvillage
- 2,719meistensmostly, usually
- 2,720einstellenhire; adjust, set; stop
- 2,721betreibenrun, operate; do (a sport)
- 2,722leichtelight, easy
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,718
- The most common German nouns#1,141
- German A2 vocabulary#608
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#137
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