German noun, neuter · CEFR A2
das Gas
Meaning in English: gas
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Wir kochen noch mit Gas.
We still cook with gas.
Der, die or das?
Gas is neuter: das Gas. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Gas?
Gas is number 2,372 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 38 times per million words — about once every 26,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 72% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,368der Vorfallincident
- 2,369die Erstellungcreation, preparation
- 2,370umfassendecomprehensive, extensive (inflected)
- 2,371globalenglobal (inflected)
- 2,372das Gasgas
- 2,373das Augeeye
- 2,374der Aufwandeffort, expense
- 2,375hinwegover, across (with über)
- 2,376fertigready, finished, done
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,372
- The most common German nouns#986
- German A2 vocabulary#541
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#125
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.