das Forum
Meaning in English: forum
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Ich habe die Frage in einem Forum gestellt.
I asked the question in a forum.
Der, die or das?
Forum is neuter: das Forum. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -um are das in 17 of 24 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Forum?
Forum is number 2,681 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 33 times per million words — about once every 30,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 73% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,677die Botschaftembassy; message
- 2,678politischpolitical, politically
- 2,679jungyoung
- 2,680der Verdachtsuspicion
- 2,681das Forumforum
- 2,682die Vorlagetemplate, model; submission
- 2,683gebliebenstayed, remained
- 2,684die Inselisland
- 2,685telefonischby phone
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,681
- The most common German nouns#1,125
- German B1 vocabulary#870
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#135
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.