German noun, masculine · CEFR A2

der Feiertag

Meaning in English: public holiday

Basic word, outside the top 5,000noun · derLevel A2

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

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Example

Am Montag ist Feiertag, die Geschäfte sind zu.

Monday is a public holiday, the shops are shut.

Der, die or das?

Feiertag is masculine: der Feiertag. How to tell the gender from the ending.

How common is Feiertag?

In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Feiertag appears 9.8 times per million words — about once every 100,000 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.

Related words in the list

Feiertag is built from die Feier (celebration, party).

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