German noun, masculine · CEFR A1
der Fuß
Meaning in English: foot
Example
Wir gehen heute zu Fuß zur Schule.
We are walking to school today.
Der, die or das?
Fuß is masculine: der Fuß. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Fuß?
Fuß is number 1,971 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 46 times per million words — about once every 22,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 71% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,967die Beziehungrelationship, connection
- 1,968kleinsmall, little
- 1,969bestehendeexisting
- 1,970Bundesof the federation (genitive)
- 1,971der Fußfoot
- 1,972der Computercomputer(s)
- 1,973der Geburtstagbirthday
- 1,974Einsatzkräfteemergency services, responders
- 1,975erhobenraised, levied, collected (data)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,971
- The most common German nouns#783
- German A1 vocabulary#527
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#211
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.