German noun, masculine · CEFR B1
der Franken
Meaning in English: franc(s) (Swiss currency)
Example
Der Kaffee kostet in Zürich fünf Franken.
Coffee costs five francs in Zurich.
Der, die or das?
Franken is masculine: der Franken. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Franken?
Franken is number 2,084 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 44 times per million words — about once every 23,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 71% 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
- 2,080Beziehungenrelationships, relations
- 2,081der Freundfriend, boyfriend
- 2,082verlängertextended, renewed
- 2,083die Flächearea, surface
- 2,084der Frankenfranc(s) (Swiss currency)
- 2,085beantwortento answer
- 2,086der GottGod, god
- 2,087Behinderungendisabilities; obstructions
- 2,088wichtigstemost important
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,084
- The most common German nouns#848
- German B1 vocabulary#668
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#230
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