German noun, masculine · CEFR A2
der Fluss
Meaning in English: river
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Nature in German list.
Example
Im Sommer baden wir oft im Fluss.
In summer we often swim in the river.
Der, die or das?
Fluss is masculine: der Fluss. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Fluss?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Fluss appears 15 times per million words — about once every 68,000 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.
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