German noun, masculine · CEFR A2
der Elefant
Meaning in English: elephant
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Animals in German list.
Example
Ein Elefant kann sehr alt werden.
An elephant can live to a great age.
Der, die or das?
Elefant is masculine: der Elefant. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Elefant?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Elefant appears 2.0 times per million words — about once every 500,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
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