German noun, neuter · CEFR A1
das Ei
Meaning in English: egg
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
Zum Frühstück esse ich ein Ei.
I have an egg for breakfast.
Der, die or das?
Ei is neuter: das Ei. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Ei?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Ei appears 8.1 times per million words — about once every 120,000 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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