German noun, neuter · CEFR B1
das Gehirn
Meaning in English: brain
Example
Das Gehirn braucht viel Energie.
The brain needs a lot of energy.
Der, die or das?
Gehirn is neuter: das Gehirn. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Gehirn?
Gehirn is number 4,304 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 53,000 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
- 4,300Infektioneninfections
- 4,301komplexencomplex
- 4,302fassento grasp, to hold, to take in
- 4,303wohntlives, resides
- 4,304das Gehirnbrain
- 4,305verschwindento disappear, to vanish
- 4,306tollgreat, fantastic
- 4,307gelöstsolved
- 4,308verteidigento defend
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,304
- The most common German nouns#1,868
- German B1 vocabulary#1,404
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#224
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