der Flur
Meaning in English: hall, hallway
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Rooms and furniture in German list.
Example
Stell deine Schuhe bitte in den Flur.
Please put your shoes in the hallway.
Der, die or das?
Flur is masculine: der Flur. Careful: it is an exception. Nouns ending in -ur are usually die (12 of 14 in the list). How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Flur?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Flur appears 6.0 times per million words — about once every 170,000 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.
House and home: more words
- das Haushouse; building
- die Wohnungflat, apartment
- das Zimmerroom
- die Küchekitchen; cuisine
- das Badbathroom; bath
- das Badezimmerbathroom
- das Schlafzimmerbedroom
- das Wohnzimmerliving room
- der Kellercellar, basement
- der Gartengarden
- der Balkonbalcony
- die Türdoor
- das Fensterwindow
- die Wandwall
- der Bodenfloor, ground, soil
- die Treppestairs, staircase
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Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.