German noun, neuter · CEFR A2

das Festival

Meaning in English: festival

Rank 2,537 of 5,000noun · dasLevel A22 forms in the list

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Example

Im Sommer fahren wir auf ein Festival.

In summer we're going to a festival.

Der, die or das?

Festival is neuter: das Festival. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -al are das in 9 of 11 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.

Forms of Festival in the top 5,000

These forms of Festival are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:

Festivals#4,796
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Im Sommer fahren wir auf zwei Festivals.
In summer we're going to two festivals.

How common is Festival?

Festival is number 2,537 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 35 times per million words — about once every 28,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 73% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 2,533das Marketingmarketing
  2. 2,534Schwierigkeitendifficulties, trouble
  3. 2,535Unterschiededifferences
  4. 2,536der Parkpark
  5. 2,537das Festivalfestival
  6. 2,538anzeigendisplay, show; report (to police)
  7. 2,539äußerstextremely
  8. 2,540die Kündigungnotice, termination, dismissal
  9. 2,541aktiveactive

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