German noun, neuter · CEFR A2
das Feuer
Meaning in English: fire
Example
Abends sitzen wir am Feuer.
In the evening we sit by the fire.
Der, die or das?
Feuer is neuter: das Feuer. 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 Feuer?
Feuer is number 1,654 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 55 times per million words — about once every 18,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 69% 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
- 1,650die Stimmungmood, atmosphere
- 1,651die Krisecrisis
- 1,652ukrainischeUkrainian
- 1,653erlebtexperienced
- 1,654das Feuerfire
- 1,655bewerbento apply (for)
- 1,656regionalenregional, local
- 1,657die Türdoor
- 1,658untersuchtexamined, investigated
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,654
- The most common German nouns#650
- German A2 vocabulary#383
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#86
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