German noun, masculine · CEFR B2
der Gebrauch
Meaning in English: use, usage
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Vor Gebrauch bitte gut schütteln!
Please shake well before use!
Der, die or das?
Gebrauch is masculine: der Gebrauch. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Gebrauch?
Gebrauch is number 3,480 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 24 times per million words — about once every 41,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,476Lebensmittelnfood, groceries (dative pl.)
- 3,477der Gegenstandobject, item; subject (matter)
- 3,478die Einigungagreement, settlement
- 3,479klarenclear
- 3,480der Gebrauchuse, usage
- 3,481eingegangenreceived, arrived; entered into
- 3,482installiertinstalled
- 3,483circaapproximately, about
- 3,484die Theorietheory
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,480
- The most common German nouns#1,477
- German B2 vocabulary#750
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#377
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.