German noun, masculine · CEFR B1
der Gang
Meaning in English: corridor, gear, course (meal)
Example
Die Toiletten sind am Ende vom Gang.
The toilets are at the end of the corridor.
Der, die or das?
Gang is masculine: der Gang. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Gang?
Gang is number 3,102 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 28 times per million words — about once every 36,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 75% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Related words in the list
Words built on Gang:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,098verletzteninjured (inflected)
- 3,099Songssongs
- 3,100das Duellduel, head-to-head
- 3,101gekauftbought
- 3,102der Gangcorridor, gear, course (meal)
- 3,103kulturellencultural
- 3,104professionelleprofessional
- 3,105alternativalternatively, alternative
- 3,106Arbeitsplätzejobs, workplaces
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,102
- The most common German nouns#1,302
- German B1 vocabulary#1,005
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#338
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