German noun, neuter · CEFR B1
das Gehalt
Meaning in English: salary
Example
Mit dem neuen Job bekomme ich ein höheres Gehalt.
With the new job I get a higher salary.
Der, die or das?
Gehalt is neuter: das Gehalt. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Gehalt?
Gehalt is number 4,240 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 19 times per million words — about once every 52,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,236die Optimierungoptimisation, improvement
- 4,237erlaubento allow, to permit
- 4,238die Prioritätpriority
- 4,239die Evaluationevaluation
- 4,240das Gehaltsalary
- 4,241stoppento stop
- 4,242gekennzeichnetmarked, labelled
- 4,243langemlong (dative, as in seit langem)
- 4,244die Distanzdistance
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,240
- The most common German nouns#1,840
- German B1 vocabulary#1,377
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#221
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