German noun, masculine · CEFR A2
der Fuchs
Meaning in English: fox
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
Nachts kommt ein Fuchs in unseren Garten.
At night a fox comes into our garden.
Der, die or das?
Fuchs is masculine: der Fuchs. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Fuchs?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Fuchs appears 10.0 times per million words — about once every 100,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
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