der Fall
Meaning in English: case; fall
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Nimm auf jeden Fall einen Regenschirm mit.
Take an umbrella in any case.
Der, die or das?
Fall is masculine: der Fall. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Fall in the top 5,000
These forms of Fall are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
In solchen Fällen ruft man am besten den Arzt.
In cases like that it's best to call the doctor.
Solche Fälle kommen zum Glück selten vor.
Luckily, cases like that are rare.
Im Falle eines Feuers bitte die Treppe benutzen.
In case of fire, please use the stairs.
How common is Fall?
Fall is number 253 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 343 times per million words — about once every 2,900 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 52% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
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In these word lists
- The 500 most common German words#253
- The 1,000 most common German words#253
- The 5,000 most common German words#253
- The most common German nouns#33
- German B1 vocabulary#36
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#8
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.