German noun, masculine · CEFR B2
der Fokus
Meaning in English: focus
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Heute liegt der Fokus auf der Aussprache.
Today the focus is on pronunciation.
Der, die or das?
Fokus is masculine: der Fokus. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Fokus?
Fokus is number 827 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 108 times per million words — about once every 9,300 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 63% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 823die Teilnahmeparticipation
- 824wichtigermore important
- 825ausschließlichexclusively, solely
- 826miteinanderwith each other, together
- 827der Fokusfocus
- 828die Energieenergy
- 829russischenRussian
- 830das Videovideo
- 831rechtsright, on the right
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#827
- The 5,000 most common German words#827
- The most common German nouns#271
- German B2 vocabulary#82
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#79
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.