German noun, masculine · CEFR B2
der Effekt
Meaning in English: effect
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Die Tabletten hatten leider keinen Effekt.
Unfortunately the tablets had no effect.
Der, die or das?
Effekt is masculine: der Effekt. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Effekt?
Effekt is number 4,231 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 19 times per million words — about once every 52,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,227Führungskräftemanagers, executives
- 4,228Filmenfilms (dative)
- 4,229der Tipptip, hint
- 4,230regionalregional, locally
- 4,231der Effekteffect
- 4,232der Rettungsdienstambulance service, EMS
- 4,233habhave (I, colloquial)
- 4,234verschaffento get, to obtain, to provide
- 4,235die Feiercelebration, party
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,231
- The most common German nouns#1,834
- German B2 vocabulary#993
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#468
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.