German noun, neuter · CEFR B1

das Eichhörnchen

Meaning in English: squirrel

Basic word, outside the top 5,000noun · dasLevel B1

Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Animals in German list.

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Example

Ein Eichhörnchen sammelt Nüsse im Park.

A squirrel is collecting nuts in the park.

Der, die or das?

Eichhörnchen is neuter: das Eichhörnchen. How to tell the gender from the ending.

How common is Eichhörnchen?

In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Eichhörnchen 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.

B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.

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