German noun, masculine · CEFR A1
der Durst
Meaning in English: thirst
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Food and drink in German list.
Example
Nach dem Sport habe ich immer Durst.
I'm always thirsty after sport.
Der, die or das?
Durst is masculine: der Durst. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Durst?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Durst appears 2.3 times per million words — about once every 430,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
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