German noun, masculine · CEFR A1
der Fußball
Meaning in English: football, soccer
Example
Am Wochenende spielen wir Fußball.
We play football at the weekend.
Der, die or das?
Fußball is masculine: der Fußball. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Fußball?
Fußball is number 1,902 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 48 times per million words — about once every 21,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 70% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
Related words in the list
Fußball is built from der Ball (ball).
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,898welchemwhich (dative)
- 1,899ständigconstantly, all the time
- 1,900generellgenerally, in general
- 1,901die Grundschuleprimary school
- 1,902der Fußballfootball, soccer
- 1,903spielteplayed
- 1,904jüngstenyoungest; most recent
- 1,905Grundlagenbasics, foundations
- 1,906konkretenconcrete, specific
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,902
- The most common German nouns#752
- German A1 vocabulary#519
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#198
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.