German noun, masculine · CEFR B1
der Frosch
Meaning in English: frog
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Animals in German list.
Example
Im Teich sitzt ein grüner Frosch.
There's a green frog sitting in the pond.
Der, die or das?
Frosch is masculine: der Frosch. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Frosch?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Frosch appears 1.4 times per million words — about once every 690,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
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