German noun, neuter · CEFR A1
das Fenster
Meaning in English: window
Example
Mach das Fenster zu, es zieht.
Close the window, there's a draught.
Der, die or das?
Fenster is neuter: das Fenster. Careful: it is an exception. Nouns ending in -er are usually der (126 of 160 in the list). How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Fenster?
Fenster is number 1,734 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 53 times per million words — about once every 19,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 69% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,730fordernto demand, to call for
- 1,731der Gastguest
- 1,732modernenmodern
- 1,733vorstellento introduce, to imagine
- 1,734das Fensterwindow
- 1,735nutztuses
- 1,736klareclear
- 1,737das Jahrhundertcentury
- 1,738der Bezirkdistrict
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,734
- The most common German nouns#686
- German A1 vocabulary#485
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#90
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