der Gast
Meaning in English: guest
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Heute Abend haben wir einen Gast.
We have a guest this evening.
Der, die or das?
Gast is masculine: der Gast. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Gast in the top 5,000
These forms of Gast are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Heute Abend kommen Gäste zum Essen.
We're having guests for dinner tonight.
Wir haben mit unseren Gästen bis Mitternacht gefeiert.
We partied with our guests until midnight.
How common is Gast?
Gast is number 1,731 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 53 times per million words — about once every 19,000 words. Its most frequent form is Gäste (#656).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 69% 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
- 1,727entdecktdiscovered
- 1,728erhieltreceived
- 1,729die Inflationinflation
- 1,730fordernto demand, to call for
- 1,731der Gastguest
- 1,732modernenmodern
- 1,733vorstellento introduce, to imagine
- 1,734das Fensterwindow
- 1,735nutztuses
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,731
- The most common German nouns#685
- German A1 vocabulary#484
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#182
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.